This hint describes how to connect your free me.com iCloud account with Mail.app on Snow Leopard. Open Mail and do the following:. Set a new account (+) (in prefs on Mail.app).
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Set the new account to use IMAP (this is important). Set the incoming mail server: imap.mail.me.com. Set the outgoing mail server: p04-smtp.mail.me.com. Set the user name: [email protected].
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Use the password associated with your AppleID. Turn SSL on (port 993). That should do it. crarko adds: I haven't tested this one, but it seems pretty straightforward.
It sounds like you may have to try alternate server addresses. There is some more information to be found, as well as this about setting up iCal in 10.6 for iCloud. Yes, iCloud has presented some problems.
My primary email, which is a.mac account isn't a problem at all. The problem is with my long established business alias account, also a.mac account. Clients are unable to send me mail on that account. It just bounces back. To date, Apple are unable to figure out the problem. In fact none of my email was working. It turned out that their engineers had established a new password to troubleshoot the issue on their end.
I hope they can fix this. I have thousands of dollars of advertising out there with my inaccessible business email on. This is the biggest screw up I have ever encountered with Apple. Once again to date, (it's been over two weeks) no resolve. A friend, running 10.6.8 was stuck with his old me.com account after upgrading it to iCloud. He wasn't able to RECEIVE messages due to the wrong (and grey = un-editable) server for incoming mail.
He could SEND mail alright, and of course do both through the iCloud.com webpage. Creating a new account with the same address is refused by the Mail app. So we backed all mail up (the 'users/.hisname./library/mail/' folder), and deleted the old me.com account.
Then we set it up again (really only entering the Apple ID and the password). The new account had exactly the same settings as before, but it works again.
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All the mailboxes he had created to store various messages came back as well!