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The tag covers Microsoft's deprecation of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, focusing on the upcoming Exchange Online POP/IMAP legacy TLS cutoff scheduled for July 2026. Discussions center on identifying non-human mail clients such as older gateways, scanners, archival tools, and line-of-business applications that still rely on these outdated protocols. The primary task for administrators is to inventory all such clients, verify TLS 1.2 or later support, and reconfigure, replace, or retire any that cannot be updated. The tag emphasizes proactive migration to avoid service disruption, treating legacy TLS-dependent appliances as already failing.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Exchange Online POP/IMAP Legacy TLS Cutoff: Fix Non-Human Clients by July 2026

    Microsoft will block Exchange Online POP3 and IMAP4 client connections that still negotiate TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 beginning in July 2026, and the systems most likely to break are not modern Outlook clients but older gateways, scanners, archival tools, mailbox-polling applications, and...