On Jun 4, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > iMac running Snow Leopard; MBP running Lion.
In Lion, when you set up your iCloud stuff in the System Preferences, it is supposed to magically create an iCloud mail account for you. In Snow Leopard — or any other non-Lion machine — you set it up as an IMAP account with the server imap.mail.me.com. Make sure to turn on SSL (secure) IMAP — a.k.a. IMAPs. That should default to port 993. The sending address is smtp.mail.me.com. There are two gotchas with Snow Leopard: When you fill in a me.com address in mail, it assumes you're setting up a MobileMe account. Just click Continue and change it to IMAP or set it up with a nonsense address and change it to your me.com address before you go live. Apple is enforcing stricter password rules. Some people have had to set their iCloud passwords to be something a little more complicated to work with iCloud. (Use upper and lower case, a number and maybe some non-alphanumeric characters. Make it at least 8 characters long.) I've got iCloud mail going on a Snow Leopard and a Linux machine as standard IMAPs accounts. When Apple first turned on iCloud mail, it was a real pain to get it going, but now they use pretty much standard IMAPs.
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