Generate your app-specific password

1. Visit account.apple.com and sign in.
2. Click Sign-In and Security.
3. Select App-Specific Passwords.
4. Click Generate an app-specific password, name it "Inflowave", and complete the on-screen prompts.
5. Apple shows the password once. Copy and paste into Inflowave immediately.

2FA required: App-specific passwords only exist on Apple accounts with two-factor authentication enabled. There is no way to bypass this - Apple silently hides the menu otherwise.

25-password cap: Apple allows up to 25 active app-specific passwords per account. If you hit the cap, revoke unused ones from the same screen before generating a new one.

Auto-revoke: Any time you change or reset your Apple Account password, ALL of your app-specific passwords are revoked simultaneously. You will need to regenerate the one used for Inflowave.

Connect to Inflowave

1. Inflowave → Settings → Email → Add sending domain → Custom SMTP.
2. Host: smtp.mail.me.com, Port: 587.
3. Username: your full iCloud address (e.g. jane@icloud.com).
4. Password: the app-specific password.
5. Save, send a test.

Troubleshooting

iCloud Mail sending caps

• ~1,000 messages per day for healthy accounts. This is observed behavior; Apple does not publish a precise number.
• Aggressive flagging - accounts that suddenly increase volume often get throttled to 100-200/day until the algorithm trusts the pattern again.
• 500 recipients per single message.
• Suitable only for personal volumes and test sends. Never use for marketing, cold outreach, or business-critical transactional mail.

Official sources

• Apple Support - Sign in to apps with your Apple Account using app-specific passwords
• Apple Support - Mail server settings for iCloud Mail
• Apple Support - Two-factor authentication for your Apple Account

Other provider guides

• Gmail SMTP
• Outlook.com / Hotmail SMTP
• SendGrid SMTP (for higher volume)
• All providers at a glance (hub article)