To Manually Set iCloud mail on 10.6.8

You can share Mail, Calendars, and Contacts running Snow Leopard. Based on my experience, I don’t recommend syncing Contacts - created a lot of problems with duplicates. If you have 2 step verification enabled on your Apple ID, you will need to generate an application specific password for Mail, iCal, and Address Book. Apple ID - Manage

Snow Leopard iCloud - Address and iCal

Snow Leopard iCloud – iCal

Snow Leopard iCloud - Configuring Mail with Mac OS X v10.6 or iOS 4

I am also having this problem, I have 2 older macs that won't go past OS X 10.6, had both of them working just fine for 3 years now all of a sudden they quit working with my iCloud mail. I have tried Rogers method with no luck, have tried rebuilding the account multiple times with no luck. I have also tried Thunderbird email client as well thinking there was an update to the sever that stop the older apple mail to stop working, so I don't know. These are good machines hate to quite using them over email.

Please Help

I have tried this configuration several times this morning with no luck. That page has totally different set up than the first one I tried, was hoping that would solve it. I am still getting a "server rejected password" error.

Thanks for the reply Eric

Before this problem happen, I've received an email from apple as below then on 16 Jun,2017 I had this email problem rejected the password even I key in correctly but it still keep coming back.

I live in Thailand, and after searching the solution how to fix this problem I found your solution. I tried to fix as your suggestion this morning and it seemed work, I get all emails back but I can't send mail it keep asking the password and reject the password even though I tried all suggestion here correctly.

Then later this evening both incoming email and outgoing email are dimmed and I keep getting message " The MobileMe IMAP server “imap.mail.me.com” rejected the password for user “xxxx@mac.com” . So, I delete the account again and try again all above step, put the correct port 993 and click SSL (Incoming Mail Server) and put password in Advance, click SSL, port 587 or even try to switch use default port (25, 456, 587) for (Outgoing Mail Server), but still have the same problem and keep getting this message reject the password.

Do you think this is about Apple set up the turn on two-factor authentication.

I didn't think it will effect anything to me because I didn't use the third-party apps, I used the Mac Mail apps on my Mac OSX 10.6.8 and I didn't set up to turn on two-factor authentication on any of my device.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

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Just had the exact same issue here in the UK.

Have now set up 2 step verification on phone, created app specific password for Mail, added this password in to the password pop-ups in Mail that were saying rejected previously. Low and behold the generated password worked and my Mail is now pulling through my icloud / me.com emails! Happy days!

I managed to follow the setting and create iCloud in Mail app! Though I have now a new problem of not being able to click send mail buttom in the Mail. It turned grey and doesn't allow me to click. Do you have any advice on this? Smtp.mail.me.com has green light when I checked mail connection status. So I assume the setting is right...

Your advice will be greatly appreciated.

Hi clumsymiho, I had the same issue and I did the following:

1) Access the accounts panel and choose the Mobile.me account that you have created using the instructions above;

2) On the drop down list "outgoing mail server (SMTP)" choose "Edit SMTP Server List" and a new window will open

3) From the list pick the "smtp.me.com". For me the field of password was empty so I just filled it with my password and clicked OK

Now the send button should appear for you, hope it helps!

The correct outgoing server setting for iCloud is smtp.mail.me.com, not smtp.me.com, and SSL is required. The full process for setting up Mail for iCloud in Snow Leopard is detailed here:

Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard

Oops, my bad... Mistyping.. Tks!

Thank you all!

I will retry and inform whether it was any success.

Hi, I managed to fix the problem.

The setting that worked for me was: imap.mail.me.com for incoming and smtp.me.com for outgoing.

smtp.mail.me.com didn't work somehow.

And yes, I had to retype the password several times, when setting up outgoing smtp.

Thank you all for the help!

smtp.me.com is not correct - it's the MobileMe server and you can expect it to stop working at some point. I don't know why you're having problems with smtp.mail.me.com which is the correct server - make sure you have SSL enabled.

Thank you for the message. Yes, you are right. Though it just doesn't work... I will retry with smtp.mail.me.com. Yes SSL is enabled.

Many thanks.

I have been having the same problem. I have followed the instructions here as well as on the link that Roger Wilmut1 provided. When I try to activate the account I am continually being asked for my password.

I would love to upgrade my machine to Lion so that this would all just work. Unfortunately it is my work machine and we use a database created with FileMaker that is not compatible with anything beyond 10.6. Very frustrating that Apple would look out things like Mail and iCal like this.

Try changing your password as detailed at the very bottom of my page:

Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard

Go for a really strong one - one poster reported that this did help.