Oldschool E-Mail Clients

Sylpheed is pretty good, has a nice old-school UI and works with most modern email services. (at least on the latest beta version which is what I am using)
I believe the aforementioned Claws Mail originally started out as a fork of Sylpheed.

What most e-mail clients can't do is not to download mails that meet certain criteria, like, everything that has the word "blabla" in it should not be downloaded.
With Outlook Express and Windows Mail you can do that.
Other e-mail clients have configurable rules too, of course, but no way to prevent the mails from being downloaded in the first place.

Fake or "LOL but true"  

I found this somewhere.
'Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Live.com users will need to access their email accounts through apps using Modern Authentication starting on September 16th. Support for third-party email apps that don’t use Microsoft’s own login prompt will end later this year. “Microsoft will no longer support Basic Auth, the method in which a person provides only their username and password to sign into their account,” says David Los, partner group product manager for Outlook, in a blog post.

You might need to remove and re-add your Outlook account in some email apps

The latest versions of Outlook, Apple Mail, and Thunderbird will all support these changes, so this will largely affect any app that hasn’t been updated to support “Modern Auth,” as Microsoft calls it. “With Modern Authentication methods we apply additional backend process/tokens that users may not notice that add an extra layer of security,” explains Los.'

I don't think it is that. It must be something else.
How would 2 fact auth work anyway? How would something like OE6 give you the prompt to type in the code?

But it clearly says that all older software will no longer work so it has to be something else.

I tried to create an e-mail account on outlook.de but it's completely fucked up and a useless piece of shit...
In order to get to the forwarding and pop3 settings you have to log in again which doesn't work because they send you an e-mail with a link that you have to click on and they send it to your new outlook address which you can't access at the time because you can't go back to the previous page and if you open a new page and try to log in it doesn't work because you need more security codes and other bullshit.
Now my new account is seemingly blocked for 30 days and whatnot...
Anyway...
Given what a useless piece of crap outlook is, the best idea would probably be to forget about the outlook e-mail address entirely and simply use forwarding to another e-mail address which shouldn't require any modern authentication shit and then just don't use the outlook e-mail address anymore.
The thing is, they will probably make it very difficult for any e-mail application that isn't their own product (even though OE IS their own product, it's too old) so better stay away from it.


But that's just my personal opinion...

I am not particularly attached to my Outlook address it's just that I am sure Gmail and other providers will make the change at some point. That's always been the way with these things in the past.
Eventually they will all follow suit.