how to access icloud from outside computer

http://icloud.com and click the Mail icon to go to the email page.

What you should see at http://icloud.com when you log in is this:

If you are seeing something else the first question is, have you actually migrated to iCloud? When doing so you are offered two options, the second being to migrate email only: if you chose that your email will not be migrated until Sunday after MobileMe terminates.

same answer for the endless loop, takes me to my log in and password and then forever sends me to the Learn More to download. I do not want to download the application on OTHER computers and want to access from the outside.

There is no application to download. iCloud.com is a web site.

I know that icloud is an application

One more time, iCloud is not an application that you download.

Are you sure that you have migrated from MobileMe to iCloud? It's beginning to appear that you haven't done that.

I was just only quoting what you had just said, "I know that icloud is an application..."

And, why do you state, "Only get the log in page, log in correctly with user name and apple ID?"

It's not, "user name" and "Apple ID," it's your "Apple ID" and your Apple ID's "password."

It's hard to help you when you keep making imprecise and conflicting statements.

In this case, verify that what you're using as your, "correct ID" is your complete email address, i.e., xxxxxxx@me.com

Thank you Roger Wilmut. That's what I needed to know. http:/icloud.com. I've just tried it on my mac - and it works (I'm still operating the 10.6.8 version). I've never used a public computer to access my mail in the past. I'm off travelling shortly, and with no "mobile" devices I didn't know how I'd get my mail (please don't say buy a mobile device - all in good time). Appreciate your help. Hope NC Woman's sorted now too.

Thanks Roger, Today I signed up to the apple support communities specifically so I could thank you. And to publically complain about what Apple did and did not do when then terminated "mobile me" in June 2012. My short story.... prior to June 2012 I had access to my personal MAC G4 computer, a family member's old IPAD and my work PC. I tired to migrate to I-Cloud but that was not possible without buying a new home computer. So next best option would be to use a browser on either my G4, or the IPAD or the PC at work to access this new "icloud" server, or whatever it is. I've been a mac user since the very first macs came to the market so I'm not a novice. I spent many hours googling and searching Mac support to find out how to access my email after they turned off mobile me. I did not find a way, so I recently bought a mac mini to hopefully get all my new and historical email back and working again. Yes, I did get back on email again using the mac mini I had to buy, so apple did OK there.

But I find it negelent, perhaps deceptive, that Apple did not provide simple instructions like you did to the mobile me users that Apple effectively kicked off their email service, which I paid for, for many years. That's very much like stealing in my opinion....Apple couldn't send me an email to the Icloud link like you provided, with instruction on how to get to my email? Rather they kept insisting that I migrate to icloud, and insisting that I had to meet computer operating system requirements that my old G4 could not meet. In my opinion they were not honest. They effectively created the preception that anyone using an older mac had to buy a new one and I think they knew what they were doing. I heard someone say that ethics cannot be taught, I agree. Thanks again Roger, I can now access my Mac Mail from alternative locations.

That was useless