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

I have tried everything including deleting the icloud account on mail and re-creating it. There times when that password prompt pops up over and over.


Please fix this apple! Its annoying! Not only that it does it with mail we have setup on our OSX Lion Server as well.


Thank you!


John

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Apr 19, 2012 9:44 AM

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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 9:53 AM

Amen.


It is seriously broken. Going to disable it and move on with my life.

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Apr 19, 2012 10:34 AM in response to kipper3d

Found another thread about the same issue.


Just tried following the instructions given there to "manually" add the "iCloud" account and not allow the system to automatically configure Mail by using the checkmark option in the iCloud preferences in the System Preferences app.


Follow the instrucations here:


http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html


Also refer to this Apple site for specifics as to what ports, server names to use as well.


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864


Just did it on my Lion Server Mac and so far not seeing the issue happen again and now seeing the proper "imap.mail.me.com and smtp.mail.me.com" server names in the Mail configuration settings and not the weird "pX-mail.me.com" versions.


Also, you can run "Connection Doctor" under "Window" menu item in Mail to verify if there is a connection issue.


Good luck.


Carlos.

Apr 21, 2012 7:02 AM in response to Carlos Guerrero

I manually configured my iCloud account in Mail, but the issue persists as it does on my iPhone 4S. Every single day, every couple of minutes I get the message to enter the password. I have no problem logging into iCloud website. What is going on?

Apr 23, 2012 8:56 AM in response to Anthony Curcione

Uhm it is possible you might be doing something else wrong. Have you tried resetting your password at icloud.com and then trying the manual setup again? Also usernames for icloud do not need full email address like a lot of other email services.


Lastly - do you have a Apple store nearby? You might want to consider setting up a time to see the genius bar to save you from wasting more time trying to sort out this problem. My philosophy is if you've spent over an hour getting nowwhere then seek help.


-John

Apr 23, 2012 9:01 AM in response to kipper3d

While I appreciate the help and the suggestions, I'm far from a newbie with Macs or computers in general. If you read my post you would see that when I set it up manually it downloaded all my mail initially which means it was setup properly. Then when it went to check mail again it froze and went offline. The problems that I'm having are the same that others are having and it has nothing to do with my setup per se. Something isn't working right on Apple's side otherwise it wouldn't work one day, fail the next, work again, etc.

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

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