iCloud MobileMe IMAP rejected password

...from the guys who brought you mobile me...... I can't believe it.

Posting from Japan

There are several people having the same problem here and I'm one of them. I'm a MBA (mid-2011) user.

Have noticed the same message and can't get any mails in MAIL nor using iPad 2 (iOS5 upgraded). However, I CAN recieve mail to iPhone 3GS (iOS5 upgraded).

Count me in on all 5 of my accounts.

i'm finding some amusement in the fact that the last message i received is from apple saying, "welcome to icloud!"

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.

"intermittent slowness?" try not being able to get any mail on any device. i guess "never" is slow.

Same problem here. Won't accept password on Mac, iCloud.com or on my iPhone in iOS5.

Great work again, Apple. Amazing that you could blow it twice - first with the horrid MM and now this.

I am also having this trouble. First just on my Mac, then on my iPhone and now also on iCloud.com.

I believe from everything I've been reading that it is a server/DNS issue on Apple's side and there's nothing we can do other than wait.

There is also this on the iCloud system status page that looks like it's the same thing, although there isn't much information to go on. And it says intermittent slowness - seems like it's more than slowness. Almost seems as though it's a different error. Clearly, though, many of us are affected around the world.

iCloud: Account - 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.

So as annoying as it is, we just have to wait. And wouldn't this be a great time for Apple to give us a better updateon what's going on. But we'll save that for another thread.

Oddly...the KB article indicates that the incoming server should be imap.x.x.x not 99-imap.x.x.x

Anyone have an idea why that is?

The field does not appear editable...so...no way to try a fix there. That said, if everyone else has that 99-imap server...it's likely to be the "right" one that happens to just not work

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864

I have not even moved to the iCloud and I am having problems with my Mail and with my iChat. Password issues or something similar.

Iphone keeps rejecting the Mail password.

Lion Mail will not recognise password.

Can't access Mail in icloud.com but I can access all the other apps, Cal etc.

Everything else streaming ok, Cal, Contacts, Bookmarks on Mac and all devices.

Message was edited by: moose_miller

I upgraded our two Airs, two iPhones and two Pad 2's last night. The first upgrade went smoothly (aside from one of the iPhones getting temporarily bricked). The second Air upgrade immeditaley started getting rejected passwords in Mail app, while the first Air and all upgraded mobile devices operated normally.

The problem has degraded from there. Now all mobile devices, web client for both accounts, and mail apps on both Airs have issue of rejected password. And there is not even a glimmer of hope.

Annoying doesn't even begin to describe it. It's a brave new Apple world.

The problem is on both my iPad1 and iPhone4 both fully updated to iOS5.

There is yet to be a problem on my iMac running Outlook 2011 for Mac, its working fine, no errors.

same here in the UK - really annoying first I couldnt get outlook to get the icloud stuff then mail and now pad and pod too!

I'm having the same problem... Mail keeps asking for a password and I can not receive Mail.

My Account Preferences for the iCloud account, also shows an uneditable "p99-imap.mail.me.com" as incoming Mail Server.