iCloud MobileMe IMAP rejected password

It's an IMAP TCP Socket issue which is causing the repeat authentication problems. If your listening Apple, give me a job and I'll fix it, as this issue has been ongoing since this morning (UK AM) and it's not really good enough.

Migration, new email acount creations aside the extra load and traffic levels should have been forecasted, with a backup plan in-case you need more storage or IMAP access.

Not being prepared is not really good enough. Poor Mr Jobs must be turning in his grave.

Very frustrating. Oh well, Photostream seems to be working yay!

Nope it still exists and has now spread to my iPhone and iPad

update: it's not just my macbook pro. all devices (iphone, ipad) are giving me the "incorrect password" error and the webmail icloud client is down.

Everything with mail worked fine for me until this morning about 2 hours ago or so. I cannot access from ANY device OR the iCloud website. I'm completely cutoff from my email account. Great job Apple, letting us all down AGAIN!

Me too! All was working and now no mail. I'm sure it is a bug or "growing pains" but come on you get users to buy multiple devices (desktop, laptop, ipad, iphone) and you want them to sync but you are not prepared for the load. I guess in theory they are all in sync...showing the same error.

iCloud is rejecting password in my email on my iMac, iPhone and iPad.

Apple, please respond...silence is not customer service.

Well, Apple is apparently listening to us.

Instead of intermittent problems authenticating, now I have a consistent problem authenticating.

This is a big relief, since I no longer need to worry about *if* a given attempt will work. I can rest assured that a given attempt *will not* work....

Thanks, Apple.

Same here, mail was working on all devices but now:

- rejecting incoming mail password on macbook and iPhone:

"The iCloud IMAP server “p99-imap.mail.me.com” rejected the password for user “xxxxxxxxxxx” "

- also icloud.com fails to launch mail after authentication, reload modal message appears but fails to fix anything.

- Outgoing mail still working on the macbook

- Incoming seems to work on ipad

Oh well back to gmail... Too much downtime on crappy ME mail.

This is insane. All my Apple devises reject my password. So does iCloud.com. I can't get my email. I can't do my work. It's cost me a fortune this morning alone. I've been with Apple since 1984 -- I even own a Newton -- and this morning alone I've regretted every minute I've wasted on this company.

Any one knows of any update expected. Its very frustrating for such important service to go down!

Same for me , was working yesturday, todoay all my icloud account are doing it ,

password rejected

i think its a apple thing.. anyone one from apple read this stuff ? maybe can give us a little

help or info ?

Now I have no problem! My icloud works great !

Same here - thought I'd try Apples new shiny telephone support - explained the problem re iCloud mail on a form - got a call back instantly from some guy in Portugal who proceeded to tell me there was nothing wrong and that he knew nothing about iCloud as he was an iPad speciallist. He then went on to say that just because a few dozen people complained on forums there are millions of users not complaining so what was my problem. Just glad I held off updating the other halves account - she'd be really miffed. For a minute there I really thought Apple had upped their game on support. 😟

iCloud support page showing account problem now

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

Users Affected: Some

10/13/2011 01:37 PDT

Users may experience intermittent slowness when logging in to iCloud Normal service will be restored ASAP. We apologize for any inconvenience.

It seems a bit more than slowness....