The Apple Discussion - Mac Mail Password Stopped Working - Nick Treharne & Eric Root at See below for how we obtained the app-specific password. The password she normally used did not work even though it worked on an old iPhone to retrieve iCloud email. Username just the first part of the of the iCloud email address before the had to be an app-specific password generated from her AppleID account page. The settings for iCloud email in Mail 4.6 used were:-įor incoming IMAP mail server: .com We didn't realise the significance of this until the iCloud password did not work in Mail on the iMac.
About the middle of the year she had received an email from Apple to say that two factor authentication was being introduced. In Nov 2017 my wife was unable to check her iCloud email in Mail 4.6 on her iMac OSX 10.6.8.
