ICloud and mail

When I load up mail or the iCloud pane in System preferences, I get the popup asking for my password
stating that the program (sys pref or mail) wants to make changes to my system and is asking for an
administrator password. When I load mail, I end up getting this 4 times.
I tried logging my os x account out of iCloud thru system preferences and logging back in but I still
get the same problem. (I do not get prompted when loading mail if I a don't have the system logged into
my iCloud account).

You might try asking this in the iCloud forum, too.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/icloud/icloud_on_my_mac

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I'm having a problem with iCloud and mail.

My account says I've used up my free 5gb. 2.1 gb was in mail. I went into my iCloud account online and deleted all of the email message as I don't use it for my mail. It still shows this as 2.1 gb of used space within mail. I have no idea how to fix this. Anyone have any ideas?

Linc Davis wrote:
The right way to set up an iCloud mail account is to sign in via the iCloud preference pane and then check the box marked Mail. Is that what you did? You should not be trying to set it up or change it in the Mail application.
Uhm... set it up? I have had this iCloud mail account for years and I've been using Mail as the app nearly as long. This mail account was MobileMe before iCloud and something else before that. All I did today was update my OS from Snow Leopard to Mt. Lion.
IAC, what I ended up doing was: (1) disable the iCloud account in the accounts list of the Mail app and then (2) set up a new account in the Mail app with all the same values, and (3) delete the old/disabled account.
I don't know what it was unhappy with before that -- everything I set up in the 'new' account was exactly the same as the old one — but it seems to have worked.

ICloud and Mail rules

I have set up my computer (2.66 GHz iMac core 2 duo, OSX 10.9.4) with two users to separate my fishing club activities from the rest of my life. I would like to use different MAIL RULES to sort mail on each of the user accounts. I would also like to sync some of my activities such as Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Notes between the accounts. If I link both accounts over iCloud, the MAIL RULES are synced period!! Unselecting mail for either or both accounts using the iCloud preference has no effect. To prevent syncing RULES requires signing one or the other account out of iCloud. This means, of course, that I am unable to sync Calendars, Contacts, etc. Does anyone know of a work-around for this dilemma?
Thanks in advance.
TomJF

I'm using the same Apple ID for both accounts to allow syncing.
I use QUICKEN to track finances. The main reasons I set up two users is to separate fishing club finances from my personal finances and to separate documents. At this point I have decided to combine the two accounts; sort documents; and open separate QUICKEN accounts as needed. I do think that Apple Mail needs attention to correct inconsistencies such as the one I pointed out.
Thank you for your Comments
TomJF

I am having problems getting into ICloud and Mail etc from System Preferences. Do I have a virus or malware problem?

A few months ago, I had a problem with my Mail app going offline constantly. Since then, for no apparent reason, that problem has gone away and another has taken its place. Now I cannot get into ICloud or Mail, etc. from my System Preferences on my MacBook Pro. Do I have a virus or malware? Should I immediately take my notebook in for repair or can I wait a couple of weeks until I return home?

Probably not a virus or malware, as both are relatively rare on Macs.
Probably not a hardware problem that requires "repair".
This is probably a software problem that can be fixed with a little thought and routine maintenance maneuvers and troubleshooting.
Here are some basic troubleshooting and maintenance maneuvers:
1. restarting your computer
2. repairing your hard drive When to Run First Aid in Mountain Lion's Disk Utility - For Dummies
3. repairing permissions About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
4. starting up in safe mode OS X Mountain Lion: Start up in safe mode
5. a test user account Isolating an issue by using another user account
If you are not comfortable with this then you could take it in to your local "geniuses" at the Apple store. You could certainly wait a few weeks. Make sure you have a backup of any important documents that you don't want to lose, first.

TS2446 blocked icloud and mail 2nd time--how to prevent?

This is the 2nd time this year I have been blocked out of icloud and macmail application.
Both times the symptom was macmail asking over and over and over for the password and not accepting it.
The 1st time was Jan 4 or so, grave consequences: by the time I troubleshot it with an apple-savvy friend, I had lost a full time job interview oppty.
Have now changed password approx 15 times, a password management Nightmare.
I work a lot online, and internationally.
Have had a mac.com address professionally for 10 years or so, have used it for all job correspondence and job search.
All my professional network have it and I really do not want to switch permanently to gmail.
Is there any way to prevent this from happening again?

Thanks for suggestions, but no luck... Moving the Event and Project folders to root stops them from showing in FCP X completely.
According to the User Guide...
Final Cut Pro X - User Guide
Your Movies folder is the default location for all project and Event files:/Users/username /Movies/
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/final_cut_pro_x_user_guide.pdf
So they are in the right place, but not updating at start up.
Any other thoughts?
btw.. smylink is a Symbolic link from my users folder on the System disk (which runs from SSD) to my Movies folder which is on another HDD

Question about iCloud and mail

I totally do not understand all of this iCloud stuff. I hope you can help me. I have a .mac account that I know can be pushed to the Cloud. In the Mail Program I have two other accounts with different providers. One is an IMAP and the other a POP account that I understand can be changed to an IMAP account. I get e-mail from all three accounts in Mail. Is the Cloud only for .mac or me accounts? Will my other accounts be in the Cloud as well? If not, will I still be able to read my e-mails in Mail on both my computer and iPad? Also if I switch over to iCloud, does every device have to be synced the same way? I have a Nano and iPad. I do not want my music synced to my iPad. I only want it synced to my Nano. Will I never be able to sync with iTunes once I switch to the Cloud?

I understand about the POP account. Will the .mac account and my other IMAP account show up separately as two different accounts in iCloud as they do in Mail or will they be merged together? Will I even be using Mail to view my e-mail? I never attached my two other accounts to my .mac account. They remained separate accounts and were viewed separately in Mail. I have had my .mac account for several years and know that I will lose it if I do not convert over to iCloud by the end of June. I mainly used it for Mail and the iDisk. I have an iPad, Nano and iMac. If I can still sync my IPad and Nano via iTunes, is it worth all of the trouble people are having with iCloud to convert over to it? I do not use ICal and have a very small address book. Will I be okay with what little I have or would it just be better to let go of my .mac account and not merge over to iCloud at all or will i eventually be forced to do it? I also have another iMac that is running Snow Leopard. I am sorry I am so ignorant about this. I just don't understand it all.

My iCloud and mail are not working!

Hi,
this moring i got a message on my iphone saying activation required then i couldnt activate it it kept saying "unable to access server" then i found out it was expired so now i have updated my phone to 7.02 and now it keeps saying that iclouds terms and conditions have changed please accept them and when i want to do that it says "cant reach server" or something like that and now i wanted to check my mail i realized that it is not working i dont have any messages whatsoever no sent box no spam no nothing so i kinda cant do anything relating to the net right now what should i do??? This is really frustrating !!! and is there any way for me to chat with the support team and ask them how to fix this problem???
Thanks.

Other services = Other servers.
What are your mail settings please.

ICloud and Mail on iMac

When I got my iMac (first one) I set up my *@me.com email account so that I could check my emails on all my iDevices and iMac.
I have noticed that if I use the Mail program on the iMac - as opposed to logging into iCloud directly - when I delete an email from Trash, and close Mail (hitting the red X as opposed to "quiting", the next time I open Mail, the "deleted" items from Trash will be back and have to be "deleted" again.
Any reason why? This does not seem to happen if I clear the Trash from either my iPhone, iPad or when logging in directly to iCloud from the iMac.
Thanks,
Steve

So, I've noticed that in Entourage, the messages don't 'disappear'. They are moved to the normal Inbox and deleted from the new Inbox that was created when I set up the new IMAP account. If I set preferences to only *mark* the messages rather than 'delete' them, then they stay in the IMAP Inbox with red 'x' marks next to them, and they show up in the normal Inbox, marked as 'read'.
However, once that happens, and I don't know why it happens, then the messages are deleted from the iPad and iPhone immediately, and they're not moved anywhere else; just deleted from those devices.
Again, the iPad won't let me view webmail, but at least I know what's happening in Entourage.

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My mail is failing to connect to the icloud server. Just happened. This happens about every 6 - 9 months for no reason. Worked fine earlier today. Any suggestions?

and this is great, if I go to iCloud support it won't let me contact them without a HARDWARE serial number! For a mail account connection error!

ICloud and mail on Mountain Lion

Hi, I can't set up iCloud on my Mountain Lion. Everything turns on (calendar, address book etc etc) except for Mail. It says to try later since it can't turn it on now. I'm doing it simply from the preference. How can I set up the mail?

it finally worked, after few days.

I upgraded my iMac with mountain lion. I can't now use iCloud and Mail. I have the error message : impossible to activate Mail wait a moment and try another time (This is translation from French).

I've made the operation several rtimes withoiut any success

From the Mail menu bar, select
Window ▹ Connection Doctor
Look for the unwanted SMTP (outgoing mail) account in the window that opens. Double-click it. Another window will open, showing a list of all the outgoing mail accounts. The unwanted one will be selected. Click the minus-sign button to delete it, then click OK.
If there's more than one unwanted account, repeat.

Mail iPad iCloud=OK / Mail Mac-iCloud=Not OK

After unchecked Mail from iCloud and Mail, Contacts & Calendars from System Preferences… I'm just allowed to send mails, not received.
And when I launch Mail on Mac these unchecked got checkeds.
Unable to Connect
"There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Verify the settings for account “MobileMe” or try again.
The server returned the error: The connection to the server “p01-imap.mail.me.com” on port 143 timed out."
I just wanna to get my mails but not syncing them with iCloud… I use iPad for that.

Thanks,
I got it. I unchecked it and check it and in "Mail, Contacts & Calendars", now it's OK. I just wanna Mail and Find my Mac in iCloud. I'm afraid of losing data syncing between devices... I'm don't know if I check Safari, it will be cool, I can export the bookmarks daily anyway. Now I just wanna delete three files dmg.txt on Mobile Documents and I don't have the 'permissions' to read them. 2.11 GB. I unchecked Documents and Data and nothing. Any ideas?

ICloud and Accounts crashing in System Preferences

Since I updated to 10.7.2 many things are crashing.
Preference panes including iCloud and Mail, Contacts & Calendars cause System Preferences to crash.
Address Book also crashes.
I have tried
deleting preference files
repairing permissions using Disk Utility
reapplying the 10.7.2 update
Any ideas?

Since I updated to 10.7.2 many things are crashing.
Preference panes including iCloud and Mail, Contacts & Calendars cause System Preferences to crash.
Address Book also crashes.
I have tried
deleting preference files
repairing permissions using Disk Utility
reapplying the 10.7.2 update
Any ideas?

I went to iCloud and my mail doesn't recognize my password but even worst my iTunes does not want to open because it says my library is blocked somewhere on a hard disk where I have no access ...

I went to iCloud and my mail doesn't recognize my password but even worst my iTunes does not want to open because it says my library is blocked somewhere on a hard disk where I have no access ...
HELP HELP

To confirm, your existing mail client isn't communicating with your existing and remote mail services at Dreamhost? Which mail client are you using (Apple mail?), and how is mail on the client set up?
It would initially seem that your client is still referencing the server, either for its inbound or outbound mail. (And I'm not sure how unplugging the server helps here, unless there's some sort of a configuration issue, or a duplicate network address or such.) This would usually be something within the configuration of the mail client.
The Mac OS X Server is significantly easier than the many other servers and server operating systems I've dealt with over the years, but it requires reading the manuals and/or some knowledge of networking and of server environments.
Small shops and home folks without the time or inclination to "spin up" on these server areas can be well-served with some help initially configuring the server. Servers are different from clients. Stuff that you're implicitly used to using when you're running a client -- the DHCP server, for instance -- are what the servers provide you with.
As for Mac OS X Server and particularly if you head outside of the default settings and sequences and off into the customizations, which is what has happened here, you might want to engage some assistance. Not just for the direct and obvious initial set-up sequence, but also for getting you set-up and started with backups and other such tasks. Before you get too deep in here and get too much underway and too much saved on your disks, do seriously consider getting somebody in to help set this box up for you.
Mac OS X Server is not "no IT", but it is rather closer to "less IT" than most. Particularly once you get it configured and running.

Problem with iCloud and E-mail set-up

I have been trying to set-up an iCloud e-mail account but keep getting the messages that it cannot set-up the account.
Problems from the iCloud control provide the message that I should use the e-mail preferences to set-up the account, the e-mail preferences provides the message that I should set-up iCloud account. The iCloud account has been set-up and the apple ID works well with other applications.
Not sure what the issue is?

Welcome to the Apple Community SupportLesley9119.
Go to system preferences > iCloud and uncheck Mail. Go to the Mail application and check that the account has disappeared, if not delete it. Go back to system preferences > iCloud and check mail.

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