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@ -953,9 +953,11 @@ There are general errors and errors specific to Gmail accounts (see below).
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The error *... Authentication failed ...* or *... AUTHENTICATE failed ...* likely means that your username or password was incorrect.
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Some providers expect as username just *username* and others your full email address *username@example.com*.
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When using copy/paste to enter a username or password, invisible characters might be copied, which could cause this problem as well.
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When copying/pasting to enter a username or password, invisible characters might be copied, which could cause this problem as well.
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Some providers require using an app password instead of the account password, so please check the documentation of the provider.
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Sometimes it is necessary to enable external access (IMAP/SMTP) on the website of the provider first.
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Other possible causes are that the account is blocked or that logging in has been administratively restricted in some way,
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for example by allowing to logging from certain networks / IP addresses only.
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for example by allowing to login from certain networks / IP addresses only.
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The error *... Too many bad auth attempts ...* likely means that you are using a Yahoo account password instead of an app password.
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Please see [this FAQ](#user-content-faq88) about how to setup a Yahoo account.
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@ -2220,6 +2222,12 @@ Moreover, email servers have access to information, like the IP address, etc of
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Of course you can report messages as spam with FairEmail,
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which will move the reported messages to the spam folder and train the spam filter of the provider, which is how it is supposed to work.
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This can be done automatically with [filter rules](#user-content-faq71) too.
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Blocking the sender will create a filter rule to automatically move future messages of the same sender into the spam folder.
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Note that you should not delete spam messages, also not from the spam folder,
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because the email server uses the messages in the spam folder to "learn" what spam messages are.
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If you receive a lot of spam messages in your inbox, the best you can do is to contact the email provider to ask if spam filtering can be improved.
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Also, FairEmail can show a small red warning flag
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when DKIM, SPF or [DMARC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC) authentication failed on the receiving server.
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