I also had to change my password in the same way when I moved from me.com to iCloud.
g./ On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > on 2012-04-15 11:29 Jeff Weinberger wrote >> Hi: >> >> I know I'm late moving to iCloud, but i still have ancient iMacs that won't >> run 10.7, so I've been holding out….until now. >> >> The issue I am having is this: I want to get my iCloud mail on my older >> (10.6) Mail client and maybe another non-Mac mail client. Apple's docs >> (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864) say that as long as your client >> supports IMAP and SSL it should work. They specify the incoming server as >> imap.mail.me.com and say to use my @me.com full address as the user name and >> my iCloud password, and port 993. >> >> I did this. Exactly. And the server rejected my password. > > i've had the same problem trying to get 10.5.8 Mail to connect to an iCloud > IMAP account; one possible solution i've read in my research is to change the > password to contain at least one upper case and one numeric; the user in > question has put off trying this because she's able to get her email on > iPhone and iPad; does your password does meet the above requirement? > > i have gotten Mail.app on 10.7.3 to connect to an iCloud acct via IMAP; i've > succeeded with an iPhone too (i have multiple iCloud accounts with active > email due to having had a mac.com "family pack"); however the passwords in > question met the Requ1rement from the start, so this doesn't tell us whether > it is the OS version or the password that made it work > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
