On 16 May 2017, at 14:35, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 16 May 2017, at 18:12, Brian LaFreda wrote:
MailMate does work with Apple’s app specific passwords, just
don’t use the FQDN’d email address for username. Truncate the
@me/mac/icloud.com and you’re good to go.
I don't know if app specific passwords trigger this to be important
(it's a bit weird), but I think it actually correlates with some of
the user feedback I've had in the past.
In any case, it's documented by Apple
[here](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202304). It does sound a bit
like they don't really know themselves what's going on: “Username:
This is usually the name part of your iCloud email address (for
example, emilyparker, not emilypar...@icloud.com). If your email
client can't connect to iCloud using just the name part of your iCloud
email address, try using the full address.”
It gets even weirder when reading the instructions for the SMTP
username: “Username: Your full iCloud email address (for example,
emilypar...@icloud.com, not emilyparker)”
But as the developer of something as idiosyncratic as MailMate I
really should not be the one to point fingers :)
I will note that I turned on 2FA long ago, and I've had zero trouble
with MailMate and its app-specific password. You set it up once; after
that, it just works.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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