Lee, It sounds simple but I can't get the Add Account to accept my username and password. I keep getting the message "Logging in to Mobile Me IMAP server "mail.me.com" failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue.
I assume the username and password are the ones I have for my iCloud account or am I wrong? I too had the devil of a time coming up with a password that iCloud (Apple) would accept. In fact when I got my iPad, it wouldn't accept it despite the fact that it worked on my MBP. Finally changed it to something much simpler and tried again. OK on MBP but not on iPad. The Apple Store help couldn't get it to work either. He finally did something and put t in through a back door? Anyway it works now; both iPad and MBP working. iMac with Snow Leopard isn't. Actually it was working last night and then in the middle of a download session of mail it decided not to. Any suggestions? Am I suppose to use some other username and password? Anne On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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