Is two-step authentication now mandatory? No option to switch it off.

[nannajan13]

Same here. I do not want two step authentication. I have spent a couple of hours (because after several attempts you are locked out for a while) trying to turn it off. 

It shows in my profile as on and when I click to change setting it sends me on a never ending loop of email codes and text codes. But never allows me to change the setting.

[gg30340]

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@nannajan13wrote:

Same here. I do not want two step authentication. I have spent a couple of hours (because after several attempts you are locked out for a while) trying to turn it off. 

It shows in my profile as on and when I click to change setting it sends me on a never ending loop of email codes and text codes. But never allows me to change the setting.

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BT have decided that they want 2FA authentication on their email system and there is not an option to turn it off.

The system will apparently turn off automatically after an undisclosed amount of time and use when it is decided that the device being used is a regarded as a safe device.  

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@gg30340wrote:

The system will apparently turn off automatically after an undisclosed amount of time and use when it is decided that the device being used is a regarded as a safe device.  

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That seems to be yet another piece of BT flannel - in practice "the system" demands a code on each and every occasion via the same and sole device, hour in, hour out, day in, day out, week in, week out. Although I've tried to avoid surplus accessing as much as possible I have likely needed several hundred passcodes since they surreptitiously forced the usage around three weeks ago. 

[licquorice]

The choice is entirely yours. Use webmail and endure 2fa or use a mail client and don't.

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If only 'twere so simple to dismiss... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[licquorice]

It is.

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For you, perhaps. For others, not.

[chrisjp]

Why is the simple act of setting up and using a free email client "not so simple for others"?
You'll have to use your password and may have to deal with 2FA the first time you set up your account in the Client, but after that you don't even need a password to get to your email, you just open the Client and it's there!
You can use email clients on computers and on mobile phones and you really shouldn't dismiss this solution out of hand.