Glenn and Steve: Thanks for your help! I tried this, but sadly it made no difference. I tried all the combinations listed previously with the new password that had upper and lower case letter and numbers, but to no avail ;(
Any other ideas? Thanks! Jeff On Apr 15, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Glenn Carnagey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
