On 22 Jan 2018, at 16:01, Bill Cole wrote:
Apple's mail system has a history of authentication flakiness, with periods where some nodes have required a bare username while others only work with the full email address as username. Also, they have been moving away from the mac.com domain for a while, and while I think mail.mac.com should still work, it's fast-flux DNS via Akamai is much faster (30s) than the {imap,smtp}.mail.me.com hostnames given at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202304 and that can cause glitches.
I'm not an expert on the technicalities of Apple's mail system, but I can certainly confirm that it has behaved in weird ways in the past. In particular, behavior could vary depending on which physical server one is connected to (I've forgotten the ugly details).
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