Why am I getting an authentication failure while adding my external POP accounts?

Why am I getting an authentication failure while adding my external POP accounts?

Generally, when you configure an external account as a POP account in Zoho Mail, you need to provide the credentials in Zoho to retrieve the emails from that account.
In case you have changed the password in the source account, or if the password has expired in the source account, there will be an authentication failure in Zoho when trying to connect your server.  Learn more.

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