I tried to get Thunderbird working with Outlook.com mail. Thunderbird automatically recognizes the server information for Outlook.com and also that you need OAuth2 authentication.

IMAPS was working afterwards, but I was unable to send mails via the SMTP server “smtp-mail.outlook.com” which Thunderbird automatically used. I checked with this Microsoft site and everything seemed to be ok.

It took me some time to find out that the server “smtp-mail.outlook.com” does not seem to support OAuth2 authentication.

I set up my account in Thunderbird again, but this time I used the manual option. I entered the IMAP data mentioned in the above Microsoft link but used “smtp.office365.com” as SMTP server name.

This did the trick. Afterwards I was able to send mails from Thunderbird again.

Thunderbird and Outlook IMAP/SMTP
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