In October 2022, Microsoft will discourage using Basic SMTP authentication for Exchange Online in October 2022.
While it will be possible to re-enable it back, even on a per-user basis, IT admins and security officers might want to follow the recommendation (quote: "you still should move away from using Basic and SMTP AUTH though if you can, as it does leave you exposed") and disable Basic SMTP auth completely.
Other email providers will surely consider disabling Basic SMTP auth as well, making it impossible to use their email services with Qlik Cloud.
Recently, even Google announced that they will stop supporting "less secure applications", so Gmail users won't be able to use basic smtp.
Qlik Cloud at the moment only supports basic SMTP auth for alerts and subscriptions.
While Qlik is discussing internally how to better address this, this idea will help push the necessary changes so that more secure authentication processes are implemented in the product.
Daniele - Principal Technical Support Engineer & SaaS Support Coordinator at Qlik
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