why does logging into MobileMe fail from imac

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why does logging into MobileMe fail from imac

For some reason, the mail application on my iMac fails to log into my MobileMe/iCloud email account. It only affects one of my account, the other two work flawlessly. I am able to access this same email account from Safari and my smartphone. What gives?!?! I deleted the mail account and re-added it, I checked the various email/firewall settings... this is really ******* me off! Will someone please provide some help and/or incite? Thank you advance.

iMac 3.06 Intel, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iBook G3, imac G3, iPhone 3G, Palm Pre+

Posted on Feb 16, 2012 12:48 PM

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Feb 16, 2012 1:01 PM in response to VegasCrook

I think I may have found the issue: I am running 10.6, so MobileMe is still the 'program' that it tries to access and, apparently, the default settings are no longer valid. After deleting the the account, I attempted to add the account again, which of course failed. I hit 'continue' at the bottom of the page after the fail and went to the next page which had a drop down menu with the following choices: MobileMe, POP, IMAP, etc. Changing from the default MobileMe to IMAP did the trick.

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