Scan to Email Is About to Break on Every Copier Still Using Basic Auth

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a deadline coming that will land on a specific, unglamorous piece of office equipment: the copier in the corner that emails scans to people.

Most of those devices sign in to your mail system using a method called basic authentication — a username and a password, sent the old way, with no second factor and no token. It is the method every multifunction printer sold in the last fifteen years knows how to use, and it is being switched off across the industry.

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Scan to Email Is About to Break on Every Copier Still Using Basic Auth