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#WHY MY EMAIL WONT SINK UP ON MY MAC MAIL PASSWORD REQUIRED GENERATOR#
#WHY MY EMAIL WONT SINK UP ON MY MAC MAIL PASSWORD REQUIRED VERIFICATION#

If you change your primary Apple ID password, all your app-specific passwords will be automatically revoked and you'll need to generate a new one for any apps you want to keep using. Despite spending days looking at the config settings, it seems Windows Mail pre-set config is correct, so you shouldn't need to change the incoming or outgoing email server settings: Your iCloud email should now start to appear.

now open up Windows Mail > settings (cog icon) > manage accounts > select your iCloud account and enter your app-specific password then 'Save'.

If you don’t have this security feature on your account then you may have to enable it & follow these instructions to fix the problem.

an app-specific password will be created for you, in this format (case sensitive) tmah-jdbq-rdyy-gdes Replied on AugThis usually appears due to having two-factor authentication on your Apple ID/account, the solution is to create an app specific password which is entered in-place of the account password.

enter a label for this password (I typed 'Windows 10 mail app').

in the 'App-Specific Passwords' section, hit 'Generate Password.'.

#WHY MY EMAIL WONT SINK UP ON MY MAC MAIL PASSWORD REQUIRED VERIFICATION#

if you're a two step verification user, your device (for me, my iPhone) will give you a verification code to enter after you put in your iCloud email password.

sign into Apple ID with your iCloud email and password:.

#WHY MY EMAIL WONT SINK UP ON MY MAC MAIL PASSWORD REQUIRED GENERATOR#

I had this problem too, but the app-specific password generator did the trick for me.Īs my iCloud email is protected with Apple's two step verification, I needed an 'app-specific password' to sign into an app that's not provided by Apple, like Windows Mail which doesn't support entering verification codes.