Manually set up 10.5.8 Leopard for iCloud mail

10.5.8 Manually set up iCloud mail on Leopard's Mail applicaiton

****Setting up 10.5.8 Leopard is not supported by Apple's iCloud.*****

Setting up iCloud mail is at WILL.

iCloud: Supported system requirements:

Summary--This article explains the minimum system requirements for using iCloud. To create a free iCloud account, you must have either an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 or a Mac with OS X Lion 10.7.2.

To set up iCloud mail on Leopard 10.5.8, you can do the following:

Backup your email messages that are currently shown in Mac Mail Application.

MobileMe, Mail: Copying MobileMe or IMAP email messages to your hard disk

Summary--In Mail in Mac OS X, you can save copies of MobileMe mail messages to a local disk, for example if you want to create "backups" of MobileMe messages you have received. (This article also applies to any IMAP email account in which message caching is turned off.)

Remove you previous MobileMe account. (after making sure anything important is backed up).

1. Open Mail.

2. Click File > Add Account. (If this is the first time you've opened Mail, you'll be automatically prompted to add an account). In 10.5.8 Leopard uncheck "Automatically set up account", then select Continue.

3. Enter your

Example: Full name-- Johnny Apple

Email address-- j.apple@me.com or j.apple@mac.com

Password-- Enterpass1*

4. Choose the Account type. Select IMAP. Then, enter description (for example, "Johnny Apple's iCloud account").

5. Enter the Incoming Mail Server, User Name, and Password using the following settings:

▪ Incoming Mail Server: mail.me.com
▪ User Name: Your iCloud email address (Don't add @me or @mac)
▪ Password: Your password

6. Click Continue to proceed.

7. Enter a description, such as "iCloud Outgoing Server"

8. For the Outgoing Mail Server enter: smtp.me.com.

9. Select "Use authentication" and verify you entered your user name (youriCloud email address without @me.com/@mac) and password.

Then, click Create.

10. Verify your settings in Account Summary, and then check "Take account online."

11. Click Create to finish configuring your mail account.

12. After completing these steps, you can send and receive email via your iCloud account.