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Mail/Notes can’t be enabled at this time.

Can't check these options in iCloud setting (Pref. pane). It is trying but after say "Mail/Notes can’t be enabled at this time. Wait a moment and then try turning on Mail/Notes again." I have reinstalled system, tried again 50 times but still no luck. Any suggestion?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 9:19 AM

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Jul 25, 2012 12:10 PM in response to wmax

You won't believe! Have spent all day to find that. Just connected my MPR to iPhone hotspot then tried to activate mail & notes again. And it started to work! Connected to condo wi-fi back and it's not working again. In my case it seems icloud servers block my IP or condo network filter and doesn't pass some data packets or something like this. Hope it may drop a hint...

Jul 26, 2012 9:24 AM in response to wmax

I could'nt active notes/mail either.


this is how i solved the problem:


Open up Mail App, go to Preferences, set up new imap account by following these instuctions http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US


Go Back to System Preferences and Mail, Contacts & Calendars and note the 2nd iCloud Account, see screenshot attached.

I still cannot enable notes or mail through the default iCloud account though...


hope this helps


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Jul 26, 2012 11:02 AM in response to wmax

Same problem here. Adding the iCloud account in Mail.app didn't do it for me neither. Also tried using one of the alternate Apple-IDs, since my primary Apple-ID/iCloud ID is a gmail, but no luck. Can log in to iCloud.com with my gmail and see the mail. Everything works well and in sync between mye iPhone and iPad. But my two mac-computers, both with 10.8, can not sync mail and notes. Didn't have this issue with the GM release though...

Jul 26, 2012 11:16 AM in response to wmax

This is similar to what gutschik said but with a tad more info...I was having this problem at work yesterday and thought it had something to do with port 993 as well. I talked to the IT guy and he said that port 993 is unblocked. I also have a gmail and yahoo account that both use the same port and I had no issues with those accounts. It appear now that the new iCloud setup sets the default incoming mail server as p03-imap.mai.me.com whereas the Lion version was simply imap.mail.me.com for whatever reason our fortiguard router does not like the p03- part at all. At home I have no issues on a airport setup nor did I have any problems on 4g on my iphone. Both Mail and Notes use the incoing mail server to connect and sync it appears.

The biggest pain in the butt is that you can't simply just go into the prefs and change that setting for some reason(it's greyed out). You have to actually create a fake account that the apple setup can not verify thus taking you to a setting page where you can enter the information manually and remove the p03- part. Once I did that boom, mail started working and so did notes sync, but now I essentially have two different iCloud accounts listed...one for mail and notes and the other being the default apple set up one with everything else. Hope this helps until there is a more permenant solution. If anyone figures out why some routers reject the p03- part please let me know so I can pass this along to the IT guy.

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