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Ask your email administrator which option is best for you to use. Account settings are common for all the three accounts.

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If using Gmail, you may need to turn on the option to allow less secure apps to access your account within Gmail. See Less secure apps & your Google Account - Google Account Help for more information.

Due to the anti-email-hijacking policies of webmail servers, the Email Snaps often fail to perform as expected.

It is a trend for webmail servers (e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.) to enforce their security policy increasingly against all email client applications which access email accounts through email API (SMTP, IMAP, etc), other than web browsers, if the client applications access from a geographical location far from usual locations of the web browser logins. The Email Snaps are often classified as suspicious email hijacker since the Snaps try to access the email server from AWS, a location different from usual web browser logins of users. Sometimes, users can find additional information in the emails from the mail servers or in the security page of the account. The Email Snaps function well as expected if their accounts are not from webmail servers.

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