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Warning against using the free Outlook app from the Windows Store

Please do not use the new Outlook app currently advertised in the Windows Store, which is available free of charge, at TU Dortmund University. This warning expressly does not apply to "Outlook 2016", which is included in official Office packages, or other mail programs such as Thunderbird.

This warning expressly does not apply to "Outlook 2016", which is included in official Office packages, or other mail programs such as Thunderbird.

Please do not use the new Outlook APP currently advertised in the Windows Store, which is available free of charge, at TU Dortmund University. This app, unfortunately also named "Outlook" by Microsoft, transfers your TU access data and your mail account to the Microsoft cloud, similar to the Outlook smartphone app for Android or IOS. Sharing your TU password with third parties is prohibited. If you have configured one of these apps even once with a TU account, you must uninstall it and then change your access data in the service portal: https://service.tu-dortmund.de/group/intra/uniaccount-passwort

You can find more information on this here: https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data-Beware-of-the-new-Outlook-9358925.html