no incoming mail-password asked

Thanks for your reply.

I however don't understand what I should exactly do now.

I understood that I should not delete my present account. Indeed I moved it to iCloud some months ago already and after that my mail application continued to work properly until, all at a sudden, the end of last week.

Should I in my mail application preferences create a new account, as addition to my present account, and identify it as IMAP? Is this what you mean? and in the new account keep the existing username: example@me.com?

Thanks for your clarification.

Thanks.

I tried to set up a new account using my current .me email adress and my current password and get the following message :

"Trying to log into the MobileMe IMAP server "mail.me.com" failed. Make sure the suer name and password you entered are correct, then Click Continue. If the " information isn't correct, you cannot receive your email"

As a result I stopped the further set up of the new account and did not Click Continue..

Should I nevertheless have Clicked Continue???

As just said I used the user name and the password which allows me to access my mails for this account on my other devices and via Safari on the iCloud. Why is it not possible to log into MobileMe Imap server under these conditions on my iMac operating under Leopard.

By the way I noticed that in my Mail preferences Advanced the port number 993 exists but is greyed out. The SSL required is set to Yes. The problem therefore seems to be accessing the port 993.

Thanks for your further comments.

I'm now going to sleep and will pick up this matter further tomorrow.
Thanks again

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After a good night of sleep I indeed created until the end a new imap.mail.me.com account with my iCloud PW.

This didn't give any positive result and Mail continues to ask for my PW as the given password is not correct.

So, I'm at a complete loss.

However to revert to a suggestion I made in my initial post, isn't there a possibility to restore for my mail application the situation existing before the incidents started, considering that I dispose of a Time Machine Backup. If we explore this possibility, what file or collection of files should be restored to come to a proper solution for Mail without disrupting my other applications???

Or can you or anybody else still suggest any other possible solution.

Thanks beforehand

to BDAqua

In looking more closely to what I did in creating the new account I found that for the user name I mentionned both the first name and the last name, which i shouldn't have done.

Meanwhile i discarded the newly created account and gave it a new try using only the last name as user name. And, yes, it worked and the incoming mails appeared.

However I have still a problem with the outgoing mails, where apparently the outgoing mail server is not working properly. I presume that there also there is something subtle that I still have to change. I will try later in the day and comeback to you if I still have a p^roblem.

Meanwhile many thanks for your assistance.

Outgoing server working now. I don't know why but I have the impression that the problem resolved itself.

Thanks a lot

After sending my last post I just was asking myself if I could at present delete the previous not working anymore MobileMe account??? without losing the mails I stored in separate Mailboxes. I presume I can do so because these Mailboxes are "on my Mac"