SMTP AUTH Retirement

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SMTP AUTH is being retired soon by Google and Microsoft:

Has anybody had any success in any of the workarounds suggested by Microsoft?

Still somewhat flabbergasted that SAP still haven’t implements SMTP OAUTH in 4.3:

https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/322463

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Our email team is saying that this will not apply to us.

We have a hybrid Exchange environment where somethings are in Exchange Online and some are on premise. I am not knowledgeable about the exact configuration so I can’t say if they are using the workaround mentioned in the linked article or not.

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Thanks for the feedback John

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Frustrated Scot,

According to SAP KB 3248171 - What is the impact of Microsoft deprecation of basic authentication on BI schedules with SMTP destination? (published November 2022)

  • The BI Platform SMTP authentication does not use BASIC AUTHENTICATION that the Microsoft deprecation article mentions.
  • The SMTP Destination for BI Platform uses SMTP AUTH extension
  • There should be no impact on the BI schedules with SMTP destination.

Also, SAP KB 3487001 - Supporting oAuth for SMTP authentication (email) in BI 4.x due to deprecation of SMTP AUTH (published June 2024)

  • oAuth is not currently supported for SMTP authentication in BI platform.
  • A switch to oAuth is currently being evaluated, for further updates see the following influence request
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