Did it have a special character? Like !@#$%^&* etc., non-alphanumeric. I think it was that it had to have upper and lower case and a special character.
g./ On Apr 15, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
