[MlMt] Cannot connect to iCloud mailbox

[Kip DeGraaf]

For what it's worth, I had to go into my Manage Apple ID section to 
enable Two-step verification before I could create App-Specific 
Passwords.

However, even after enabling that and creating an App-Specific Password, 
I still get this in my Activity Viewer:

22:59:57 Running action
22:59:57 Sending request (15)
22:59:57 Handling request
22:59:57 Ready to run action
22:59:57 Clearing connection to imap.mail.me.com
22:59:57 Trying to connect to imap.mail.me.com on port 993
22:59:57 Successful connection on socket 57.
22:59:57 Initiating secure connection...
22:59:57 Setup of secure connection complete (TLSv1).
22:59:57  Cipher: AES256-SHA              SSLv3 Kx=RSA      Au=RSA  
Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA1
22:59:57 S: * OK [CAPABILITY st11p00mm-iscream023 14G XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE 
IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR AUTH=ATOKEN AUTH=PLAIN] iSCREAM ready to rumble 
(14G:13928) st11p00mm-iscream023 [37:501:22:59:57:9B]
22:59:57 Retrieving password (keychain or user request)
22:59:57 C: A0 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ••••••••••
23:00:01 S: A0 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed
23:00:01 Error: Server response: “A0 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] 
Authentication failed”. Command attempted: “A0 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN 
••••••••••”.
23:00:01 Retrieving password (keychain or user request)
23:00:05 C: A1 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ••••••••••
23:00:05 Error: TCP socket was unexpectedly closed.
23:00:05 S:
23:00:05 Error code: 2
23:00:05 Failed action (1000). Reset observed read/write timeouts: 8/8

23:00:05 Handling reply
23:00:05 Running action
23:00:05 Sending request (13)
23:00:05 Handling request
23:00:05 Trying to disconnect nicely (8)...
23:00:05 C: A2 LOGOUT
23:00:05 Error: TCP socket was unexpectedly closed.
23:00:05 S:
23:00:05 Clearing connection to imap.mail.me.com
23:00:06 Ready to run action
23:00:06 Clearing connection to imap.mail.me.com
23:00:06 Trying to connect to imap.mail.me.com on port 993
23:00:06 Successful connection on socket 57.
23:00:06 Initiating secure connection...
23:00:06 Setup of secure connection complete (TLSv1).
23:00:06  Cipher: AES256-SHA              SSLv3 Kx=RSA      Au=RSA  
Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA1
23:00:06 S: * OK [CAPABILITY st11p00mm-iscream012 14G XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE 
IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR AUTH=ATOKEN AUTH=PLAIN] iSCREAM ready to rumble 
(14G:640) st11p00mm-iscream012 [27:247:23:00:06:BD]
23:00:06 Reusing latest used password
23:00:06 C: A0 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ••••••••••
23:00:10 S: A0 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed
23:00:10 Error: Server response: “A0 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] 
Authentication failed”. Command attempted: “A0 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN 
••••••••••”.
23:00:10 Retrieving password (keychain or user request)
23:00:12 Error: Failed to retrieve password for account.
23:00:12 Error code: 4
23:00:12 Failed action (1000). Reset observed read/write timeouts: 8/8

23:00:12 Handling reply

Was asked for the password twice even though I had already set the 
password in the Edit IMAP Account section.

On 7 Oct 2014, at 17:41, Scott A. McIntyre wrote:

> On 8 Oct 2014, at 8:35, Steve Mayer wrote:
>
>> Scott,
>>
>> You should have received an email from Apple a few weeks back 
>> concerning the requirement of using app specific passwords for third 
>> party apps accessing iCloud.  It appears they turned this on today.
>>
>> I was able to generate an app specific password for MailMate and the 
>> login worked again fine.
>
>
> Great tip, Steve, thanks.  That was it indeed.
>
> I've had so many mails from Apple for dev testing on 10.10 that this 
> particular one slipped by me.
>
> Worth noting for others!
>
> Scott
>
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