[MlMt] Keeps asking for mail.mac.com password

[Randall Gellens]

On 24 Jan 2018, at 10:45, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 24 Jan 2018, at 12:06, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> On 22 Jan 2018, at 7:01, Bill Cole wrote:
> [...]
>>> Apple's mail system has a history of authentication flakiness, with 
>>> periods where some nodes have required a bare username while others 
>>> only work with the full email address as username. Also, they have 
>>> been moving away from the mac.com domain for a while, and while I 
>>> think mail.mac.com should still work, it's fast-flux DNS via Akamai 
>>> is much faster (30s) than the {imap,smtp}.mail.me.com hostnames 
>>> given at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202304 and that can cause 
>>> glitches.
>>
>> What are the optimal servers to use?
>
> As it says on the linked page: imap.mail.me.com port 993 (imap+tls) to 
> retrieve mail and smtp.mail.me.com port 587 (SMTP-based message 
> submission with STARTTLS) to send.

Oh, I thought you were warning that the servers listed on the linked 
page were the ones NOT to use,