MacOS Mail.app – Using SMTP and IMAP with iCloud Email

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I've never used @me.com or @mac.com emails before. Neither did I use MobileMe.

So when the iCloud came out last night I created @me.com email account this morning. Registration on its own went just fine. Email account was added to Mail.app.

Questions:

  1. How to setup SMTP as Sending emails doesn't work?
    • In the iCloud email account settings the SMTP account is set to iCloud (iCloud) which occasionally is displayed as iCloud (iCloud, Offline) – this has been set by the iCloud config when creating the @me.com account
    • The above iCloud SMTP is not listed in the SMTP servers list
    • Connection Doctor doesn't check the outgoing iCloud setting either – just as if it didn't exist.
    • According to Apple's KnowledgeBase on iCloud Email the SMTP server is smtp.mail.me.com, but Mail.app reports an invalid SSL certificate
  2. What would be IMAP settings for the new @me.com accounts?
    • Mainly asking because the settings iCloud config set are not all filled in and are not following the earlier linked support document, e.g.:
      • username is the <username>@me.com, not the full address
      • incoming mail server is p06-imap.mail.me.com and it is grayed out
      • password field is empty
    • Receiving emails does work though, not sure why

So, any tips on getting the @me.com working properly? All other iCloud services seem to work fine.

Edit

It seems to have started working for me without any tweaks. I simply had it disabled for last couple of days, enabled now and it started working without any intervention on my side.

Best Answer

Not sure if this helps but been a mobile me user for a year now and this is my outlook 2007 settings:

Also worth noting I have seen in small print that iCloud will only work with Outlook 2007 & 2010

Account type: imap

Incoming mail server: mail.me.com

Outgoing mail server: smtp.me.com

  • (I note that Apple's KB of this states: smtp.mail.me.com i.e. mine does not have "mail" in it).

User name: (_ _ _ _ _)@me.com (don't put in @me.com though)

Tick require logon using SPA

on advanced tab:

outgoing server tab

my outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication: tick this

use same settings as my incoming mail server: click this

Advanced tab

Incoming server (IMAP): 993

Use following type of encrypted connection: SSL

Outgoing server (SMTP): 587

Use following type of encrypted connection: TLS

So far my account is still working but have not upgraded to iOS5 or iCloud yet as waiting for update to another program that I use to bypass iTunes for music importing.

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