Mac Mail will not work ?

I think they're slowly nudging people to switch, .mac & MobileMe are going away about June/July, may as well set it up now.

I understand .mac mail will still come through. Do not delete the old account yet.

You cannot use .mac or MobileMe as type of Account, you have to choose IMAP when setting up, otherwise Mail is hard coded to change imap.mail.me.com to mail.me.com & smtp.mail.me.com to smtp.me.com, no matter what you try to enter.

iCloud Mail setup, do not choose .mac or MobileMe as type, but choose IMAP...

IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:

•Server name: imap.mail.me.com

•SSL Required: Yes

•Port: 993

•Username: example@me.com (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)

•Password: Your iCloud password

SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:

•Server name: smtp.mail.me.com

•SSL Required: Yes

•Port: 587

•SMTP Authentication Required: Yes

•Username: example@me.com (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)

•Password: Your iCloud password

I already did all this. Make sure all the settings were setup manually, updated my password to the new requirements in iCloud, with the IMAP type account, checked with my ISP to make sure they weren't blocking any ports and still I can't receive any mail..

I can send, but I definitely don't receive and I get the prompt that says that the password has been rejected OVEr and OVER again.

I really don't know what else to do... and this happened to me since the 23rd, out of the blue, I didn't change any settings.

Could someone help me please??!!!!!😟😟😟😟😟😟

THanks

Ju

My bad, let me give more info..

I'm on Leopard, and I can access the account just fine on the iPhone, iPad & iCloud.com, I just can't receive any emails in the Mail app on my iMac. I did do the migration to iCloud when they suggested it, and after I did I have been working fine until now.

Did you try making a new IMAP account & not try to change the old MobileMe account?

LOve mynew Macbook - I did and it didn't work, that's why I posted a reply.

BDaqua - yes, it's a new account that Im opening with the new settings and it won't connect. I erased the old Mobile account in the process of troubleshooting, thinking that by eliminating that account it wouldn't mess up with the new account connection, I know, sounds stupid, but hey I'm out of solutions now.

I'll attach some screens so you can see

Looks like the settings are correct.

So, do you have something blocking Port 993 the IMAP SSSL incoming port?

Is your router doing any Port Forwarding to another Computer?

Oh, in Mail's menu>Windows>Connection Doctor, are there any red dots?

THe ISP says they are not blocking any ports and I haven't change any configs on the router myself, specially none to do port forwarding, so I don't think it's there...

Oh and the connection doctor has the incoming connection failed... the SMTP is just fine..

WROTE Mar 27 22:57:40.906 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0x145f6ff0 -- thread:0x18047e40

2.2640 LOGIN myname@me.com ********

READ Mar 27 22:57:44.006 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0x145f6ff0 -- thread:0x18047e40

2.2640 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed

And I just changed the password, so I made sure I made it a very clear one, and is perfectly working in the mobile devices and icloud.com

I really appreciate that you are taking a look at this, BDAqua 🙂 I'm just running out patience with it because I can't figure what suddenly changed

Well, we know why you're not getting Mail, it's not loggong in, the Password fail can be decieving & not mean the PW failed at all, for instance if the server required JuMenses@ me.com & you put in JuMenses as username, then password would fail for JuMenses, & vice versa.

Not sure whatis going on, but mulling it.

Got it. So I fixed the username back to just the name without the domain and the error changed.

Now the OCnnection Dr.is liting up green all of the servers as connected and successful, but when I click the triangle to bring all accounts online, it fails and tells me the Mail wasn't able to read the server: imap.mail.me.com

No wait, now it went back to "red-lighting" the incoming mail server again as Authentication failed... I'm serious this computer is tripping.. I really don't get what's happening..

Do you think this is worth paying support to take a look at? Being that it's not a hardware thing?

Look here's the connection doctor output:

WROTE Mar 28 00:50:13.024 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

2.2819 LOGIN myname ********

READ Mar 28 00:50:13.081 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

2.2819 OK User myname logged in 123932

WROTE Mar 28 00:50:13.114 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

3.2819 CAPABILITY

READ Mar 28 00:50:13.181 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

* CAPABILITY XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS CHILDREN BINARY UNSELECT SORT CATENATE URLAUTH LANGUAGE ESEARCH ESORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES CONDSTORE ENABLE CONTEXT=SEARCH CONTEXT=SORT WITHIN SASL-IR SEARCHRES XSENDER X-NETSCAPE XSERVERINFO X-SUN-SORT ANNOTATE-EXPERIMENT-1 X-UNAUTHENTICATE X-SUN-IMAP X-ANNOTATEMORE XUM1 ID IDLE

READ Mar 28 00:50:13.214 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

3.2819 OK Completed

WROTE Mar 28 00:50:13.250 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

4.2819 LIST "" ""

WROTE Mar 28 00:50:13.286 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.mail.me.com -- port:25 -- socket:0x151cb1b0 -- thread:0x18e67910

EHLO [10.0.0.5]

READ Mar 28 00:50:13.323 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

* LIST (\Noselect) "/" ""

4.2819 OK Completed

READ Mar 28 00:50:13.359 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.mail.me.com -- port:25 -- socket:0x151cb1b0 -- thread:0x18e67910

250-st11p00mm-asmtpout001.mac.com

250-8BITMIME

250-PIPELINING

250-CHUNKING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-EXPN

250-HELP

250-XADR

250-XSTA

250-XCIR

250-XGEN

250-XLOOP 7F5970E2CCF07045ECE9F185893F9FDE

250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN

250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN

250-NO-SOLICITING

250 SIZE 0

WROTE Mar 28 00:50:13.398 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNegotiatedSSL] -- host:imap.mail.me.com -- port:993 -- socket:0xf0a8660 -- thread:0x14557280

5.2819 LOGOUT

WROTE Mar 28 00:50:13.436 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.mail.me.com -- port:25 -- socket:0x151cb1b0 -- thread:0x18e67910

*******************************************

READ Mar 28 00:50:13.487 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.mail.me.com -- port:25 -- socket:0x151cb1b0 -- thread:0x18e67910

235 2.7.0 PLAIN authentication successful.

WROTE Mar 28 00:50:13.528 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.mail.me.com -- port:25 -- socket:0x151cb1b0 -- thread:0x18e67910

QUIT

It's like a roulette on the Connection Doctor.. i hit it sometimes and it logs in and hit check other times and it fails.. so weird 😟

Open Keychain Asssitant & see if you have more than one entry for imap.mail.me.com there.

If so delete the wrong one, or all of them & start Mail & it'll ask for the PW again.

My mail will not load. I came here to a computer and logged into iCloud and Calendars and Address Book works but No email. Getb a message to report to Apple. I'm in North Carolina. Seems like some servers are down.