[MlMt] iCloud accounts require an app specific password starting June 15th

[Scott A. McIntyre]

Hi,


On 17 May 2017, at 0531, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> I will note that I turned on 2FA long ago, and I've had zero trouble 
> with MailMate and its app-specific password.  You set it up once; 
> after that, it just works.


Echoing Steve here.

I use several platforms which make use of per-app passwords, and 
MailMate with Apple's 2FA and per-app password support has been easy; 
FastMail have it as well.

I would recommend a good password manager though.  I use 1Password, 
which helps me organise this quite nicely.  Each platform with 
application specific passwords is a separate entity in my data, and I 
make a new "Password" item within that entity for each of the 
Applications.

MailMate has worked fine with this setup.  Only took a few minutes to 
set up with 1P.

Absolutely worth it given the importance of email, and how compromising 
an email credential is often a gateway to the compromise of 
$everything_else.

Scott