iCloud MobileMe IMAP rejected password

Now I find that my iphone will not send email from any of my accounts.

Just what is happening

Thinman

Still not working trying to add @me.com to my Mail account (Leopard). I went to the KB article, and I notice that it doesn't even want to save those settings. even if it type in imap.mail.me.com when I go back to the accounts page after it was saved it it back to mail.me.com ... still not recognizing PW or anything.

As an owner of multiple Apple devices its great that they are offering this out without paying $99/yr anymore, but I hope it gets sorted out soon as I'm not going to type out emails of any length on my phone and the online browser iCloud interface is a bit clunky.

WHAT IS HAPPENING ?

Yes, I am shouting. Apple are saying nothing about this problem. Is it their servers ? We are, as users, trying to help each other making here and there. This helps some but not others. On my iMac have deleted and added my account to see if I had made some mistakes.

A few minutes ago, I went back to the iMac and sending is working again. For how long ?

My Incoming mail------ P99 - imap.mail.me.com

Out Going mail iCloud

Most of last evening Thursday 13.10.2011 In that latter box was saying offline.

I must say that I was a PC user up to 7 years ago. This is the first I have had problems. it is annoying.

Thinman

I suspect the iCloud rollout has caused much higher demand on their servers than Apple was expecting.

same thing here... migrated from MobileME to iCloud and... authentication erros on IMAP email clients

I found a partial solution...

I tried to use the OLD Mobile me accoutn settings:

IMAP

mail.me.com

port 993

SSL

It will give you three or for errors, then you will be able to access your emails.

Thinman wrote:

WHAT IS HAPPENING ?

Yes, I am shouting. Apple are saying nothing about this problem. Is it their servers ? We are, as users, trying to help each other making here and there. This helps some but not others. On my iMac have deleted and added my account to see if I had made some mistakes.

A few minutes ago, I went back to the iMac and sending is working again. For how long ?

My Incoming mail------ P99 - imap.mail.me.com

Out Going mail iCloud

Most of last evening Thursday 13.10.2011 In that latter box was saying offline.

I must say that I was a PC user up to 7 years ago. This is the first I have had problems. it is annoying.

Thinman

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Day 2 of the rollout, be patient.

I'll chime in. Cannot establish IMAP acct on iMac and MBP. The web service works OK. One other thing, the iPad set up OK, but iPhone 3GS appears to be OK, but when you go to mail app, the icloud account does not appear along side gmail, et al.. Have verified settings on for iCloud email.

Leopard - don't you need Lion installed on your mac for iCloud to work correctly?

I wonder if my problem is the same. I updated my imac to the 10.7.2 last night and installed icloud on my iphone and then tried setting it up on my mac and it won't let me log in. It asks for my Apple ID and Password and when I enter it it says "Unrecognizeable id or password" and I get a popup that says "you can't sign in at this time try signing in again". I know I have the correct ID and password. This is ridiculous!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

sort this out. i am still to-day as recently as 2 minutes ago getting the authentication failure on iPAD iMAC and MPB.

Only happening since i moved to iCLOUD

I use my @me.com e-mail address as a business address

Can i go back untill you sort your act out ???

Rory

Bill3 wrote:

I'll chime in. Cannot establish IMAP acct on iMac and MBP. The web service works OK. One other thing, the iPad set up OK, but iPhone 3GS appears to be OK, but when you go to mail app, the icloud account does not appear along side gmail, et al.. Have verified settings on for iCloud email.

I had to delete my GMail account and the iCloud association with the phone and all other accounts for it to show up on my iPhone 4. Then it worked.

Vestan Pance wrote:

Leopard - don't you need Lion installed on your mac for iCloud to work correctly?

iCloud yes, but this is simply setting up the IMAP @me.com email account, not the rest of the features of iCloud that don't work without Lion.

iCloud mail rejects my password now and then, but all my other services work just fine and I can log in to the website without incident. Growing pains, I guess.

Ok... Now my status is:

Migrated MobileMe account to iCloud, loosing only all contacts (restored from iPhone though)

All iCloud services working just fine in my iDevices (iPad, iPhone and MacBook), all updated to latest iOS and

OSX.

IMAP authentication using Outlook or Postbox (Thunderbird) to imap.mail.me.com NOT WORKING. I am using old MobileMe settings, gives 3 or 4 consecutive auth. errors but works fine after that.

Any news???

Does anyone on Apple reads this fórum anyway???

Hey this happen to me too.

You have to go on your iphone or Ipad or what ever device you are going to being using and install IOS 5 first, then set up icloud on that device and then your device will ask for you to log in. Once your log in is completed you can then log in on your home computer.

The key is to log in on your device first so the account can authenticate.