Setting up e-mail for Android?

"None" is not an authentication option for my outgoing mail. The options I do have are: Auto, DIGEST-MD5, CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, and LOGIN. Not one of them works. Again, this is on a Motorola Electrify 2. Do they have a tech support group? I'm losing my mind. 😟

Do they have a tech support group?

Who? Apple or Motorola?

Apple won't provide support for setting up iCloud email on Android devices above pointing you to the mail server settings. Apple provides support for iCloud on Apple mobile devices, Macs and PCs - the systems it advertises iCloud as being compatible with. Due to Androids incredibily fragmented OS, the same settings can work perfectly on one device, using one version of Android, but for some reason won't on another device using another version of Android.

Hello All,

I have experienced much trouble getting this to work consistently on my Droid RAZR MAXX. The setting in my original post worked for maybe a couple of months. I'm just trying to peice my timeline back together, I'm not entirely sure. I beleive that some time after getting the Jelly Bean update I removed my existing MacMail (icloud) account and just entered my username and password and "bam," it worked for like 2 weeks and then got all jacked up again. I'm guessing Apple keeps jacking with us and changing their access settings while they send out updates to the Apple products to keep them connected. It's like chasing a monkey with it's hair on fire trying to keep connected.

Keeping all that in mind, my old Droid Bionic (WiFi only), has never lost connectivity to my MacMail once and still functions flawlessly.

None of it makes any sense anymore.

I will keep trying and hopefully will make progress... again!

Thanks,

Bren

Hi RLestina,

So I did some playing around today. This is how my settings are right now and my MacMail is working on my Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX (Jelly Bean)

INCOMING Settings

Username: XXXXX@me.com

Password: ********************

IMAP Server: mail.me.com

Port: 993

Security Type: SSL (Accept all certificates)

Authentication Method: LOGIN

IMAP path prefix: leave blank

OUTGOING Settings

SMTP Server: smtp.me.com

Port: 587

Security Type: TLS (Accept all certificates)

Require sign-in: Check the box

Authentication Method: Plain

Username:XXXXXXX@me.com

Password:*******************

I haven't compared this side by side with my previous post, but I'm pretty sure there are some differences.

I hope this helps.

Brenden

OH! MY! GOODNESS!!!!! IT WORKED!!!! You have been elevated to Grand Vizier of MacMail! I'm anticipating that there will be problems again, so we may be in communication before too long. Thank you, thank you, thank you! How you ever figured this out is a mystery to me, but I'm glad you did. I'm going to go and read my email now -- on my PHONE!!! 😁

Big up and thanks to Brenman2. Your info on this thread got my wife's email working again on her Galaxy Ace. It had been working just fine since the day it was bought until last week when it started to display 'cannot connect to the server' message.

Brenman2's settings are radically different to the previous ones. Why her email settings should change overnight is a mystery but, I'm sorry to say, too typical of Apple these days. It's like the bad old days of Windows 😟

Anyway, thanks again. We appreciate the time and trouble you've taken to post on here.

I'm no computer savant, but I've checked with multiple people on this issue with Androids and Apple. From what I understand, this is not an Apple issue, but an Android issue. Because there are so many different operating systems that Androids use, they easily get all "kaflooey." (Techinical term 🙂) Since writing my original post, I've dumped the Android and have seamless service on my new iPhone. This whole problem reminds me of the early days of Apple when Steve Jobs refused to let other computer makers use his Operating System. He felt it would lead to nothing but problems. Apple almost went under because of this, but, it's one of the big reasons why Apple computers have fewer problems -- the OS was built for the machine. Anyway, I really appreciated all the help with getting my email configured properly. I'm a happy camper now that I have my iPhone and don't have to deal with email craziness any longer. Thanks to everyone!!

I'm happy for you - and I'm okay for us as the email's working again - but I can't see how this is an android issue as nothing has changed on the Galaxy Ace for over two years. Nothing on the phone's been updated since the day we got it from the store and set up the email account. Whatever flavour of android it is running has stayed the same, my wife's email account with Apple has stayed the same and yet the original settings suddenly were useless. All else on the phone was working fine so I can only see that it was a change on Apple's mail servers. If it hadn't been for the advice and information in this thread, I would have gone to plan B, which was to change my wife over to Gmail which, of course, works almost natively in android. Thankfully for joint bank account, I didn't need to go near plan C - migrating her to a much more expensive iPhone ;-)

Thank you, lufromsonoma.

It's a year and a half since you posted, but it was the settings you recorded that did the trick for me.

I have an HTC Amaze running Android 4.0.3. Out of the blue my .mac email account stopped syncing on my Mail app. Like others who have posted here, I spent a lot of time trying to re-configure the settings manually. I spent a half hour at my local T-Mobile store, too, but the rep there had no more success than I had.

As usual, there is no explanation to these kinds of problems. You just have to hit on the precise settings.

Thank you for taking the time to post the details of your experience to this forum.

Drew

Worked like a charm thanks for the help if anyone trying to set up there iCloud email on device like LG Optimus G, Pro, G2 works flawlessly with those settings.

You want to make sure to find out want server your icloud mail is on by looking under your calender settings on icloud.com then the share set it to public you will recieve a url that you can use to share your calender. The first part of that url tells you what server you are on ("p01" "p02"etc).

So when you put in the info for imap4 under incoming server settings as listed above you would enter "p09-imap.mail.me.com" was my setting for example.

Im in the same boat as many others, bought the origianl iPad, use the email address that comes with it, now want to switch to the Samsung note. I've been using a Galaxy 3s phone for about a year and love it but couldn't get the email to work. I found this discussion and got all exicted but wasn't sure which email app to download. Randomly, I decided on AquaMail and it is works great. The only setting I had to enter though was my username and password! When I hit go, the app said setting up IMAP, and viola, my email was there!

Thanks for the settings!

Dale

Guys,

Spanner in the works? I have a new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet running Android 4.2.2 that won't set up my mac.com/me.com mail account if its life depended on it. I've tried every possible combination of suggestions on these discussion pages and nothing works. I mainly can't get past the incoming mail settings page that reports 'cannot connect to server'. All my settings and password formats are correct. I even changed my Apple ID password as suggested by some to no avail.

My Samsung Galaxy Note phone running Android 4.1.2 had no problem at all before and after I changed the password and set up automatically from just the mac.com address and password. No further settings were needed.

Android 4.2.2 bugs perhaps?

Anyone have suggestions?

Martin.

Hi Brenden....

I am EXTREMELY GRATFUL for your post. I have been trying so many different options since my RAZR MAXX dropped my Mac Mail with an upgrade a while ago. THIS WORKED!

Any other tricks up your sleeve? Have you figured an efficient way to get Contacts from Mac to a Droid?

Thanks,

Debbie

A little tick that I didn't see metnioned here yet, is that for the AOSP mail app on Android (at least 4.4.2) the setting for the outgoing smtp server security shlut be STARTTLS instead of the SSL/TLS settiing which was used for incoming connections. Also, although I suppose YMMV, i did not find it neccesary to add a pXX section in front of the any of the server settings. 🙂

I found an app available on Google Play called CloudMagic which works wonderfully for me. I have my gmail, icloud, and work all coming into this app. Arranges nicely and replies from the correct email account.