Anne, et.al., I get that sometimes on my MBP and iPad.... It will just not want to work with a particular account. Then a bit later all is fine. The two biggest ones for me is iglou.com and iCloud.
I think it is the cloud for iCloud. Richard On Jun 4, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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