I am so sick of entering my password for iCloud email.

Thanks. Glad I was able to help.

Too much like hard work for me that. Going to stream line to speed things up though. Just been researching mountain lion and windows 8. Both going down the mobile OS route now, and from what I've seen, W8 looks fairly awful. ML, if stable and bug free, looks ok and will at least provide a similar experience to my IOS devices. Will probably wait till a stable release of that and buy an iMac for home, with IOS devices for travel. Been using mac mail since .mac which is why this disappointed me so much. It's been my most trusted cloud service until now, and the rest of iCloud is great. Apple seem to be in a transition period, if they get their QC back to how it used to be and improve documents in the cloud and iWork syncing, I'll be hooked again!

Realised I was leaving account type as iCloud, not IMAP. That stops you specifying an out going server and forces the iCloud servers back before you complete the set up. Switched to imap now and so far so good. Thanks mate!

Glad to hear you got it working Samuel.

Carlos, does your instructions work for Lion OS users? I migrated over to Lion when it came out, but your information seems to be for users who are not using Lion OS.

GREAT, thanks for the information I will try this tonight. Watch Apple make changes on or just after June 11th (WWDC 2012) and we're back to having problems ~ LOL

kipper3d wrote:

I am on Lion and those instructions are what solved the problem for me.

I had originally let lion configure my icloud for me and I ended up with pX.mail.me.com mail hostnames. After entering them in manually as that website describes, imap.mail.me.com, resolved my problem.

-John

I'm assuming you didn't lose any email & my created save folder because they remain on the server right? I just want to make sure ~ again thanks

kipper3d wrote:

Thats right - as long as you dont have any custom folders - it will redownload all your email. Its basically imap which always has your email stored on the server.

-John

Hmm, so with that said I better move all emails out of my custom folders and throw them back into my main inBox ~ again thanks

Hey, I have had the same issue with my icloud account. I have been on the phone to an Apple senior tech advisor and this is what he told me to do:

open terminal and type:

sudo chmod -R -a "everyone deny delete" ~

hit enter

enter your password and watch terminal resetting all the permissions for the entire content of your HD. Once done close terminal and restart your mac whilst holding down the option/ alt key. If you have Lion installed you should be able to select the recovery partition, otherwise insert your OS Lion install DVD and choose it as your start up volume.

from the menue bar, I can't remember which menue item but looking through all of them, one will give you the item 'Terminal' and you open that. Once in the Terminal app type:

resetpassword

hit enter

a menue will pop up from which you choose your startup drive (Macintosh HD). Ignore the reset password section and just click on <reset home permissions and ACL>

you might have to enter your password again.

Grab a cup of coffee.

When done restart your Mac and your problem should be sorted.

I take, however, no guarantee but it worked fine for me.

It will also cause your time machine to treat all files as modified so be aware that a whole lot of backup will be going on after the proceedure. My icloud email does however play nice now.

Personally I would take a pass on doing something this drastic to fix a single mis-configured inbound mail server entry issue.

But, if it fixed your issue. Glad it worked.

That's a pretty drastic measure to have to take for this. However I have to say, at least for me, whatever the problem is it is limited to Apple Mail on my Mac. None of of my iDevices have any trouble accessing iCloud mail. Maybe whatever this is will get fixed in the upcoming point release which has been seeded to developers already.

This is not really in response to Anthony, but just a post to the discussion in general: I THINK THEY MAY HAVE FIXED IT! I haven't had a request for my mail password in two full days now, and I sure couldn't go that long before! Another iCloud problem has also disappeared. In addition to my Mac mail for family and friends, I have att.net mail for business and a problem with that (an issue with the contacts) which started at exactly the same time has also magically fixed itself. For me, I'm sure these were iCloud related - both problems started right after I moved from Mobile Me to iCloud and the att.net problem did not occur when I used my old faithful iBook (too old to sync with iCloud).

Oh frabjous day!