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Warning from Microsoft about Thunderbird for one of my email addresses.

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Bluesky1
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I am getting the message from Microsoft in the screenshot below. It would not let me copy/paste the text. I have never had to agree to something like that to use Thunderbird for my email addresses. I have two other email addresses that are working fine, (through a different ISP) but I am having a problem with the iglide.net email address, which is now through MS Office 365. I don't want to accept the terms, since I don't know what those are, and I have not been able to get email into Thunderbird from that email account since February 9th, when I updated Thunderbird. I have looked at the privacy policies and didn't see anything like what is included in the screen shot I have attached. I have not had to agree to anything like that for my other two email addresses that come into my Thunderbird program. I can login to the Office 365 iglide account online, with no problems, so my password is not the problem. Can you help? Thank you! (:

I am getting the message from Microsoft in the screenshot below. It would not let me copy/paste the text. I have never had to agree to something like that to use Thunderbird for my email addresses. I have two other email addresses that are working fine, (through a different ISP) but I am having a problem with the iglide.net email address, which is now through MS Office 365. I don't want to accept the terms, since I don't know what those are, and I have not been able to get email into Thunderbird from that email account since February 9th, when I updated Thunderbird. I have looked at the privacy policies and didn't see anything like what is included in the screen shot I have attached. I have not had to agree to anything like that for my other two email addresses that come into my Thunderbird program. I can login to the Office 365 iglide account online, with no problems, so my password is not the problem. Can you help? Thank you! (:
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gp
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Hello Bluesky1

this is all legalese. Before OAuth, the third party applications were using your password without restriction. When using OAuth, the scheme differs: you are supposed to keep the full rights to your mailbox to yourself, and you give to the application (that you installed yourself on your computer) only limited rights to use the mailbox on the server. So Microsoft will not allow any third party app (that's Thunderbird) to access your mailbox on MS server, until you say explicitly to them that it is all right to do so.