Help connecting to iCloud

[Jamie Allen]

Greetings again

Well, the problem is now fixed, if not solved. Precisely the same set-up run on Linux rather than Mac works perfectly. Go figure. 

All the best,

Jamie
 
On 5/01/2014, at 12:36 am, Jamie Allen <jsdckr at me.com> wrote:

> Warmest greetings to you
> 
> 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. 
> 
> I'm running offlineimap on a Mac OS X 10.9, and am successfully downloading from gmail. However, icloud gives the following :
> 
>> 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
> 
> 
> 
> also :-
> 
>> [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
>>  
> 
> Here is the relevant section of .offlineimaprc :
> 
>> remotehost = imap.mail.me.com
>> # remotehost = p02-imap.mail.me.com
>> remoteuser = xxx
>> # remotepass = xxxx
>> type = IMAP
>> ssl = yes
>> cert_fingerprint = 13db1ba7073b75443c52a14c3bae0cc9d478567c
> 
> 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?!)
> 
> 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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