kipper3d
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Q: 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

by Carlos Guerrero,Solvedanswer
Carlos Guerrero Carlos Guerrero
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A:

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.

Posted on Apr 19, 2012 10:34 AM

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  • by RainyWeather,

    RainyWeather RainyWeather May 1, 2012 5:47 AM in response to Anthony Curcione
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    May 1, 2012 5:47 AM in response to Anthony Curcione

    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!

  • by rickall51,

    rickall51 rickall51 May 14, 2012 9:17 AM in response to kipper3d
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    May 14, 2012 9:17 AM in response to kipper3d

    Just had this same issue today (migrated to iCloud MONTHS ago, then all of the sudden, Mail starts asking for my password).  I followed the suggestion a few pages back to change the Authentication in Preferences from Apple Token to Password, and it seems to have fixed the issue (at least so far..)

  • by londonman2,

    londonman2 londonman2 May 14, 2012 9:54 AM in response to rickall51
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    May 14, 2012 9:54 AM in response to rickall51

    I've tried accessing mine through iCloud webmail or mobile me with no luck. So, no iCloud here in the UK for the time being. Switching to my gmail account. Good luck to all...

     

    lm2

  • by carlos48,

    carlos48 carlos48 May 31, 2012 1:20 PM in response to kipper3d
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    May 31, 2012 1:20 PM in response to kipper3d

    I just want to add my name to the long list of unhappy users.  Just want to say, as a long time Mac user, how sorry I am that I switched to Lion and that I absolutely abhor iCloud. The seamless, intuitive user experience totally went out the window with these two.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 31, 2012 1:28 PM in response to carlos48
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    May 31, 2012 1:28 PM in response to carlos48

    If your password.png

  • by Daynarita,

    Daynarita Daynarita Jun 1, 2012 8:27 PM in response to Csound1
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    Jun 1, 2012 8:27 PM in response to Csound1

    I'm seriously annoyed. I haven't been able to use my email since Monday. except on my ipad which is NOT working for sending out my resume saved on my macbook pro.

     

    I deleted my account just a few minutes ago and added it back and now I recieve the mail but cannot not send it I get the password message, there's nothing so far that will fix it within this thread has anybody solved this problem????

     

    My girlfriend's works fine and everyone else I know we're all in the same house. This is frusrating because i"m trying to contact employers and run a business at the same time?

     

    has anyone called apple or anything?

     

    Thanks guys

     

    D

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Jun 1, 2012 9:00 PM in response to Daynarita
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    Jun 1, 2012 9:00 PM in response to Daynarita

    Daynarita wrote:

     

    I'm seriously annoyed. I haven't been able to use my email since Monday. except on my ipad which is NOT working for sending out my resume saved on my macbook pro.

     

    I deleted my account just a few minutes ago and added it back and now I recieve the mail but cannot not send it I get the password message, there's nothing so far that will fix it within this thread has anybody solved this problem????

     

    Change your password.

  • by Mangetsuninja,

    Mangetsuninja Mangetsuninja Dec 18, 2014 3:25 AM in response to dembow
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    Dec 18, 2014 3:25 AM in response to dembow

    ttrying to find new thread that has this discussion!

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