iCloud MobileMe IMAP rejected password

My password is fine, it's up and down for me, now is down.. Nothing to do with settings it's just a crappy service like mobile me was pure and simple.

I migrated to iCloud today and was able to access my email intially on my MacBookPro, the iCloud server and my iPhone 4. But suddenly couldn't access my mac.com email (though I could still send) from my MacBookPro.

I did what Jon140 says above about logging out of iCloud in System Preferences (it deleted my iCloud mail account on my MacBookPro in the process) and then logged back in. I went back into mail and recreated the iCloud email account (it did not happen automatically) and now everything works fine-sending and receiving.

One note the password system used by the iCloud is now "Apple Token" not password as it had been in the MobileMe system.

Peter

I did the following and it started working again:

1) Right-clicked (control-clicked) on my .Mac/iCloud email account in Mail and chose "Export Mailbox..." to save it just in case.

2) Selected Mail...Preferences... in the menu and selected the iCloud account.

3) Clicked on the "-" (minus) button below the account list to remove the account and confirmed that I wanted to.

4) Clicked on the "+" (plus) button below the account list and entered my iCloud password.

5) Unchecked the boxes about contacts and calendars (those seemed to be working).

6) When I proceeded from there, the account came right back and all my emails downloaded back from the server.

All is good now.

I change the AppleID password after icloud migration and works fine.

I had the same issue.

I selected ssl from advandced setting in prefrences and it has started to work. Try that.

raz

I reset my password via https://appleid.apple.com, then updated the password in Mail > Settings > Accounts. That fixed the problem.

Well done! it worked for me! Thank you very much

10 Year Mobile Me user. Migrated to Lion and thus to iCloud.com - For numerous personal reasons, Lion isn't my OS of choice and I reverted back to Snow Leopard.

At first a little bit of MobileMe mail problems, but through several fora was able to get the correct mail settings.

Now today, Februari 20th 2012 - Family Day in Canada - my 10 year old Mobile Me on Snow Leopard account was rejecting passwords and they are 100% correct. So guess somewhere at Apple switches were flicked.

This page below helped me out and with using the recommended settings all is working 100% correct, no more "moved to icloud messages"

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html

I can't thank you enough for this. I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out. One day my email stopped working on my laptop and I was going crazy trying to fix it.

This fixed it.

Thank you again!

AMAZING! Thanks for posting this link. This solved my problem - I have wasted a huge amount of time on this today!

I migrated and everything was fine for WEEKS and then this morning I can't get anything online. ***! I didn't touch my password so is it a server debacle all over again? iCloud/Apple is just not good for business. 😟

p.s. all the Steve Jobs cracks are sooooooo lame.

says VeriSign certificate is expired

You are fantastic. I have been looking round for a fix to my mail problem since switching to iCloud in March 2012. I followed your link and hey presto. You are the saviour. Thank you very much!!!

Had the same issues on Mac, iPhone was working yesterday but I have noticed my inbox kept reappearing despite deleting the messages. iCloud mail was working for couple of months and now I've been having the same imap server not responding message for over two weeks now.

Rang tech support and its a technical error that is being worked on, despite the online status claiming <1 of users are affected.

http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/

Follow the instructions in this similar thread to fix the problem.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3888192?answerId=18170959022#18170959022