Q: Unable to use App-Specific Password with 3rd party email clients?
Using Thunderbird or MailMate to access my iCloud email no longer works with the App-Specific Password.
I get told that Authentication failed.
If I connect directly to iCloud's IMAP server with:
openssl s_client -connect imap.mail.me.com:993
And after connecting and see SSL and other connection details scroll by, I get
* OK [CAPABILITY st11p00mm-iscream035 14G XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR AUTH=ATOKEN AUTH=PLAIN] iSCREAM ready to rumble (14G:3845) st11p00mm-iscream035 [49:2609:13:10:22:B3]
Upon which I attempt to enter
0 LOGIN myusername myAppSpecificPassword
Only to get
0 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed
The only unusual thing I can think of is that my iCloud username ends with an underscore.
Any thoughts?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Posted on Oct 9, 2014 6:21 AM