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iCloud email rejecting password

A day and a half and it's been down for me. Anybody have a contact email address for Apple about this? It's causing me a significant hassle considering my me.com email address is used for work as well as play.
 
Mine is slowly starting to work, the calendar updates are a little slow, but they are getting there eventually!
 
pbrooks said:
Yes. It's p--sing me off.
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Go to Mail Preferences>Accounts and change the username to the same email address listed in iCloud.com as your apple ID. For me this was my .mac email address. Also ensure SSL is ticked on Advanced Settings in Mail Accounts. Save these settings then quit mail and then reopen it. This fixed it for me.
 
DrSkywalker said:
This has worked on my iMac and Air:
Mail/Preferences/Accounts - click on Advanced and change Authentication to Password instead of Apple Token.
Still some hiccups but seems to work fairly well
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Thanks for the Tip. This seems to have fixed my problems.

Note: I was not a Mobilme customer but I was having the same problems with Apple Mail as everyone else. It was rejecting my password
 
The iCloud IMAP problem solved !!!

Exactly the same behavior on my MB Pro... IMAP rejecting password... Why? On my iPhone everything was OK... Short time later I have found small difference in account definition: The IMAP on my MBP Mail was still asking for account "name@me.com", but on iPhone it was "name@mac.com"... Therefore I have checked my iCloud settings on MBP (System Preferences -> iCloud) - and voila! - the Apple ID was set to "name@me.com" (it was made during Me.com to iCloud transfer process without my intervention. So I had to log out from iCloud and log in again with proper Apple ID - "name@mac.com"... Since then mail on my MBP is working like a champ... :)
 
It is NOT you. Mobile me is giving the same recurring password error. something has messed up both Cloud email, and MM email.
 
Pretty sure Apple have set it up so you can inter-mix your @me and @mac addresses and it won't matter. At least that's the way it should be once the system is working properly. I have, over the last few years, used @mac or @me for iTunes and mail etc etc and both have done the exact same job.
 
I've tried three different mail clients

I've tried three different mail clients on my Win7 laptop and none of them can get through to iCloud's IMAP server. The SMTP server is no problem; messages go out -- but any attempt to access iCloud mail folders, including to save sent messages to the Sent folder, fails with "username or password incorrect."

I really need to be able to use a mail client on my Windows PC with any email address I intend to use for any purpose, and I even installed Microsoft Outlook to try to make the setup work. No go -- though honestly, that was a relief.

Edited to add: On my iPhone it works perfectly, no problem.
 
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techpr said:
www.iCloud.com works OK, Lion Mail works OK, iPad 1 w/ iOS5 works OK, but can't past the configuration for Mail on iPhone 3G. Says Password incorrect no matter what I do.
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I am having this exact same problem. I can send an email from my iCloud account to my Gmail account from any device but my iPhone. I just get that the password is incorrect every time.
 
It seems as though Apple has created new requirements for Apple ID/iCloud passwords. They now require you to have 8 characters, a capital letter, and a number in your password. I just changed mine to suit those parameters, logged back into iCloud and its working fine now.
 
Kingofmyroom said:
It seems as though Apple has created new requirements for Apple ID/iCloud passwords. They now require you to have 8 characters, a capital letter, and a number in your password. I just changed mine to suit those parameters, logged back into iCloud and its working fine now.
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This requirement was in effect when I created my Apple account last year, so that's not the issue for me. This is getting very frustrating -- no two people having this problem seem able to resolve it the same way.
 
Kingofmyroom said:
It seems as though Apple has created new requirements for Apple ID/iCloud passwords. They now require you to have 8 characters, a capital letter, and a number in your password. I just changed mine to suit those parameters, logged back into iCloud and its working fine now.
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THANKS!!!! :):)

Changing my password to the capital/number/letter/sybol worked....... for receiving mail, now I am just getting the same issue (password or log gin incorrect) just for sending mail..... half way there :roll eyes:


Also is it possible to 'sync' contacts outside iCloud onto my iPhone 3G??

:apple:
 
madasabloke said:
THANKS!!!! :):)

Changing my password to the capital/number/letter/sybol worked....... for receiving mail, now I am just getting the same issue (password or log gin incorrect) just for sending mail..... half way there :roll eyes:


Also is it possible to 'sync' contacts outside iCloud onto my iPhone 3G??

:apple:
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mac13k wrote in a separate post:
For calendar sync.

1. Go to Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars/Add Account.../other/CalDav
2. Type the following settings:
Server: caldav.icloud.com
User Name: your @me.com address
Password: your MM password
Description: Contacts iCloud

3. press Done and wait. The verification can take some time. After that you will have a new CalDav account. If you are lucky it will sync and you are home. If you are like me it will not sync. We need to make one adjustment.

4. Go to your new CaldDav account settings. You may notice that the server name has been changed to p02-caldav.icloud.com or something like that (p01, p03 etc.). That's good. We want that.
5. Now tap on "Advanced Settings" and copy the Account URL (all of it: from https:// ... to principal).
6. go back to your CalDav account click on Server. Delete the current address ("p0x-caldav.icloud.com") and paste the address you copied from advanced settings. Hit Done and wait for verification. Now it should sync.

Fllow the same procedure for contacts with one difference - in step 2 you type contacts.icloud.com as server address.
 
No good

Changing my password didn't help.

Edited to add: I've got Windows Live Mail working with iCloud, and I guess I'll be using it instead of Thunderbird, at least for now.
 
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