It just decided to work!!! I didn't change anything; not even the way I was holding my mouth.
Thanks Lee. Anne I am keeping my fingers crossed and hope it will continue to work. 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.
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