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App-Specific Password doesn't work . . .

Created an "app-specific password", well two, and neither or any works outside of "The Apple Ecosystem". I'm trying to set up my Apple Mail account in another Mail Client and also need the specific SMTP syntax that Apple uses, since it seems to change with the wind, using more words to describe than just outright list the settings. I have used it in various ways and now I have no idea what to use "today". My personal servers upon finalizing the address, gives you a detailed account settings plus scripts or details as to how your eMails sets up in certain clients. Apple can't seem to do so . . .

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on May 17, 2022 11:25 PM

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May 18, 2022 1:20 PM in response to muguy

I knew that this page was there, I've used to verify before. But haven't needed it due to having everything set up properly. Just added a couple more IMAP sources to be able to work remotely from and those same settings just wouldn't work. And then the "App-Specific Passwords" . . .


But in the several hours I spent searching, throughout the "Rabbit Hole/Sales Tour" all the search inquiries and resulting links that I made the Apple "Help" pages just couldn't send me to "THE" one page I was looking for.


Now I can unforward my Mac.com Mail and retrieve in natively.


Now maybe you can direct me to, "How to add an Adult to my AppleTV Account. All they presented is to add is a child . . . Then next will to be to recover the I thought eMail address that I set for this that was signed and sealed from Apple that is now forwarded to another eMails address. That had to be an internal burp. I put a 128bit Encrypted Password on it. One heck of a burp . . .


I long for the good ol' days when you'd get an eMail or stumble on an offer that cost you nothing and within a couple clicks you were done enrolling or getting the eMail address you wanted were the one click directed to, of which I'm on my third from Apple "losing" them. I had eMail and Music long before Apple had an app for either. I use to be able to do all this in my sleep. But I guess evolving and moving on to other things and no longer being solely isolated in the Apple Ecosystem has it's price. I guess I'm lucky I remember my name. Which was originally "FarmerBob" from "day one" when we had to register here in the forums until Apple made the "Big Change" and a few, thousands, had to reregister and lose everything we had, some 20k point, prior to the Turn-of-the-Century then again around 2005. Oh, the OS9 days.


Thank you so much . . . again. (I'd eMail you a beer or two, but the all the fizz gets stripped out.)

App-Specific Password doesn't work . . .

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