I am using Microsoft Mail on my PC with Windows 8. My me.com mail account will not send out mail. Is anyone else having this problem?

I've been having this same problem since last week. My wife is also experiencing the same thing. Using our older .mac accounts with a Windows Phone and can't send email. Seriously thinking of scrapping apple's stuff and getting another email provider.

Change your outgoing smpt server to: p06-smtp.mail.me.com

This seems to have worked for others on this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5373851?answerId=23250030022#23250030022

Were you a former MobileMe customer before upgrading to iCloud? Apple announced that it's no longer giving complimentary storage upgrade to former MobileMe customers so your account reverts back to 5GB. If you are over your 5GB iCloud storage limit as of 9/30, iCloud Mail will stop working for you unless you manage your iCloud storage and bring it down to 5GB or pay for the extra storage you are using.

HT5527 - iCloud: Complimentary storage upgrades for former MobileMe members expired on September 30, 2013

I've had MobileMe and whatever it was before that. I've had my apple account for over 10 years now.

As for the iCloud storage issue I received an email that I was being reverted back to the 5gb limit and in the email it told me that my current usage is zero (I don't store any of my stuff in iCloud).

I did finally after repeated attempts get it to work but it's a little hit a miss but not giving me the errors as it did before when I changed the smtp server as many have suggested. Going to try it for a little while and see what happens.

Try adding changing the SMTP server address to p06-smtp.mail.me.com.

Hi JDJ

I have been unable to send emails from Entourage for a couple of days. I have just realised that this is after the "change" so is probably linked. I get the following message: The server for account "xxxxxxxxx" returned the error "5.7.8 Bad username or password.

I was sending that from the Apple notification page and then came here to find your solution. I have tried it and it works. The question is, how does Apple expect everyone using their email service to know or find out about these things? It's alright for those of us who use the Discussion pages but there must be at least thousands around the World who are unable to send emails and have no idea what to do.

Thanks for the info by the way!!

TY

I agree completly. They should have sent out a notification.

At least we are all here to help each other.

JT