HT204397: Using app-specific passwords

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Q: [FIX] Snow Leopard mail password iCloud 2 step verification issue

[FIX] Snow Leopard mail password iCloud 2 step verification issue


See link below on how to fix password not being accepted in Mail.app on Snow Leopard, when one has enabled 2-step verification on your iCloud account (i.e. icloud.com/me.com/mac.com email accounts).

 

Note that you do NOT have to disable 2-step verification here, just get an app-specific password, as explained in the link:

 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.comp.sys.mac/jjdUxvO6e2M

 

Should (usually!) only be a Snow Leo problem, as Lion onwards recognises normal password without doing this, via Sys Prefs setup.

 


...Just a problem I couldn't solve for days, nor even the iCloud specialist at 2nd-line support at the stuffing useless Applecare, either!

 

Hope this helps the many others with this issue.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.93GHz C2 Duo, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 5:36 AM