Help connecting to iCloud

Tue Jan 7 14:05:52 UTC 2014

If you would, try and run on your mac osx machine:
 offlineimap -1 -d imap -l logfile.txt

This will send more detailed debug info about the imap protocol, including hopefully that authentication error, to a file named logfile.txt
Then if you could attach or copy/paste that logfile.txt and myself or possibly one of the official maintainers might see why exactly the plain auth is failing for you on osx.  

On Monday, January 6, 2014 9:32 PM, Jamie Allen <jsdckr at me.com> wrote:

Hi Chris

Yes, I'd be delighted to do that, and to help with fixing this issue if I can.

Specifically, what would be most useful to you, over and above what's captured below? I'm more than happy to run anything and capture whatever material is useful.

I have now set up a linux server which is running the offlineimap job beautifully, connecting to icloud... And the Mac is connecting absolutely fine to gmail and others.

All the best, and thanks for your kind attention to this.

Jamie

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 03:23:51PM -0800, chris coleman wrote:
> Interesting- this means the OI code must've run differently on OSX vs. Linux.  Do you have any log lines to share, that show different errors on OSX, vs. the logged errors/messages on Linux?  If you could run OI on both os's and generate logs on purpose and then copy/paste the relevant sections that would be very helpful tracking this bug down.
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> On Sunday, January 5, 2014 5:58 PM, Jamie Allen <jsdckr at me.com> wrote:
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> Greetings again
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> Well, the problem is now fixed, if not solved. Precisely the same set-up run on Linux rather than Mac works perfectly. Go figure. 
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> All the best,
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> Jamie
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> On 5/01/2014, at 12:36 am, Jamie Allen <jsdckr at me.com> wrote:
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> Warmest greetings to you
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> I wonder if anyone is successfully using offlineimap to connect to Apple's icloud service on imap.mail.me.com?
> 
> My login fails to authenticate, and I have not been able to find any advice on this specific situation. Please excuse my ignorance. 
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> I'm running offlineimap on a Mac OS X 10.9, and am successfully downloading from gmail. However, icloud gives the following :
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> ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run!
> > ERROR: All authentication types failed:
> >        PLAIN: [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed
> >        LOGIN: command: LOGIN => socket error: <type 'exceptions.IOError'> - Too many read 0
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> also :-
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> [imap]:   52:29.20 Account sync home CAPABILITY: ('ST11P00MM-ISCREAM002', '1U25', 'XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE', 'IMAP4', 'IMAP4REV1', 'SASL-IR', 'AUTH=ATOKEN', 'AUTH=PLAIN')
> > [imap]:   52:29.20 Account sync home [sync] AUTHENTICATE ('PLAIN',)
> > [imap]:   52:32.91 imap.mail.me.com handler NO response: [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed
> > 
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> Here is the relevant section of .offlineimaprc :
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> remotehost = imap.mail.me.com
> ># remotehost = p02-imap.mail.me.com
> >remoteuser = xxx
> ># remotepass = xxxx
> >type = IMAP
> >ssl = yes
> >cert_fingerprint = 13db1ba7073b75443c52a14c3bae0cc9d478567c
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> How can I configure offlineimap to authenticate in one of the ways icloud accepts (obviously although it specifies 'AUTH=PLAIN' it doesn't mean it?!)
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> I see that on Mail.app, the account setting specifies "Apple Token" - I'm not sure what that is...., but it is presumably what is offered with 'AUTH=ATOKEN'
> 
> Any advice or help would be very very gratefully received!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jamie
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