Apple mail not working

[jbarley]

For some reason or another Apple mail will not accept my log in credentials any more.
Still works fine on my Intel systems but not on any of my 3 PPC units.
Anyone familiar with this odd behavior?

 

[philgxxd]

Wasn't this issued already here before. I remember some months ago mentioning it and it was due to the two-factor authentication?

 

[eyoungren]

Wasn't this issued already here before. I remember some months ago mentioning it and it was due to the two-factor authentication?

Yeah, if you have 2FA enabled you need to generate an app password for the email account.

 

[jbarley]

That might be the case if I had 2FA enabled, which I don't.

 

[amagichnich]

Iirc Apple switched all users to 2FA

 

[jbarley]

Iirc Apple switched all users to 2FA

That doesn't explain why it is when I start looking at generating an app specific password for apple mail, the first thing that pops up is a message telling me I need to enable 2FA, which is when I stop the process.
Plus this is only affecting a couple of older PPC systems, none of my relatively newer Intel macs are giving me any problems. Also I still log into my iCloud account with a simple email address and password, same as I have for several years now.
If I understood the letter Apple sent out in June correctly, they said 2FA would be enabled for those using 3rd party applications (not Apple) to access their icloud data.

 

[amagichnich]

There is a difference between two factor and two step. I think two factor is for icloud devices and all incompatible ones need two step verification

 

[Interceptor2]

This discussion might be out of my depth, anyway, I use Apple email on two Tiger PPC with no probs.

 

[Hrududu]

That might be the case if I had 2FA enabled, which I don't.

You need to enable two-factor authentication and then create passwords to use Mail on Leopard and Tiger.

 

[jbarley]

You need to enable two-factor authentication and then create passwords to use Mail on Leopard and Tiger.

Sounds like a plan, anyone care to point me to a "how to do this link" or offer a step by step on how to get my mail back on my PPC units?

 

[Slix]

Sounds like a plan, anyone care to point me to a "how to do this link" or offer a step by step on how to get my mail back on my PPC units?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915
That is the page for Two-Factor Authentication. You'll have to set it up for your account, then the part about "Generating App-Specific Passwords" is what you need to do for using Mail on a PowerPC Mac with iCloud.