Why does my Me mail account keep asking for password?

Same here. Stupid of me to attempt this upgrade at the office during working hours.

Not using Outlook or PC but in Apple Mail 10.7.2 the account I moved to iCloud keeps asking for password. The funny thing is if I hit cancel about five times it still downlonds mail.

So much for a better launch than MobileMe.

Same here...

Worked fine last night. Now it is constantly asking for the password.

It's clear that Apple's mail server isn't working properly. Can't get mail on my Mac or iPhone. Also can't even log into apple support right now!!! Wow.

I'm also having the same issue.

Same; and this happened yesterday too, and came good by itself without doing anything.

No doubt this is due to the massive volume of traffic on the servers. I am using web mail instead for now; clunky, but serviceable.

same here. on all devices. and icloud webmail is down too.

Problems with the me.com email everywhere here: outlook (PC), iPhone, iPad and over the web (icloud.com). Definitively something is wrong with the apple mail servers. Had to close outlook, getting very annoyed with all the password pop up windows.😠

At first, it worked on my ipad. Now it does not.

At this moment, I have no access to email in any of my devises. This is critical.

Is there a way to revert back to mobile me?

So, what is the deal with iCloud and Apple Mail now, in regards to the constant asking of the Apple ID password? Anybody have any other suggestions, other than "signing out" of iCloud? Thanks. Here's to Apple offering an Update to fix this soon. 🙂

I'm also having this issue. I had to remove the @me.com settings from Outlook because it made the program unusable. In addition, Outlook keeps crashing and I'm getting the error Apple Push has stopped working. Finally, although my contacts seem to have connected to iCloud, my calendar is not. SO DELIGHTED I decided to use iCloud. (Not.)

Guess what, I'm not on iCloud, but my Apple Mail program is doing the same thing. My mail comes from a university server, not iCloud. I never had a problem until updating my system software to 10.6.8. Now the mail program constantly asks me for the password - over and over, every time I try to send or receive. Likewise the WiFi connection keeps asking for password to connect to my Apple Time Machine wireless router.

Please, if anyone has an answer, please post it. Does Apple read these forums???? What's the problem here?? Can we get an answer?????

Hi, struggling to understand how your issues a pertinent to the thread on this forum? The Thread is to discuss issues accessing email since migrating to iCloud, and ways to resolve these issues.

If you recieve email through your campus server and you do not connect to any of Apples email servers your Snow Leopard issues with regards to password authentication and wireless are un-related??

I suggest you speak to your Campus support staff, as your issues have nothing to do with connecting to Apple Email servers.

G

Update: I managed to get Calendar working by changing the imap address to imap.me.com and then making the me account default. Unfortunately, the mail still does not work as it says it is unable to connect to the server, but it does not ask me repeatedly for my password. Very weird as contacts and calendars are undating correctly.

Thanks. I had tried several times to correct this by delting the account and resetting it via the Mail Contacts and CAlendars button in System Preferences but ended up without an incoming mail server. Deleting previous efforts and then setting up my iCloud account again through the iCloud option in System Preferences seemed to work and give me an effective iCloud outbox and inbox. My thanks to LadyWhimsy do not extend to Apple who seem to insist on charging for help with new software for which one has paid in the last fortnight - when I moved to Lion expressly so that I had iCloud syncing with my iPad. Having recently moved from a RISCOS (original Acorn/ARM) machine to Apple I note the difference. With RISCOS products, like Unix, the developers are generous with their help and time - but then they do not end up with the sort of money that Apple make; only happy customers. Rant over - thanks again.