Warning: Possible inconvenience and account lock-out ahead!

Word of caution when enabling 2FA:

It is important to complete this process with all of your email clients in one pass, especially if you are adding 2FA to an account that has been in use for a while.

Once 2FA is enabled for your account, your regular account password will no longer work for sending or receiving email through most email clients. If you forget to reconfigure one or more clients, and those clients continue to try to use your regular password, they are likely to be temporarily banned from communicating with the mail servers.

This ban will use your IP address, so it is possible you could see a larger impact if, for instance, your home/office internet service WIFI has all of your family or company devices behind a single IP.
In this case, you might see an IP ban block access even for devices that you already reconfigured.

If you get started and find that your email clients are no longer able to communicate with the mail servers, the first thing you should do is repeat your inventory of devices and make sure you have found everything that might be using your email account.

Disable the email clients on all of those devices, then wait 60 minutes before continuing the process. This should allow time for the IP bans to clear, at which point you should reconfigure, and only then, enable each client one-at-a-time.


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