ICloud incoming mail server setting.

I'm not getting iCloud email and the incoming mail server setting (p99-imap.mail.me.com) is dimmed out and not editable. Ideas?

Chris CA wrote:
CAP2010 wrote:
Unfortunately, no matter what I type into the incoming email server while attempting to recreate my account in Mail, the program always tries to connect to p99-imap.mail.me.com.
You don't have to type any server info for your iCloud account.
System prefs > Mail, Contacts & Calendars - New account and select iCloud.
Unfortunately, that was step 1 in the process of not being able to use my mail in iCloud. Also, I have tried changing my password to 8 numbers/letter, etc. in accordance with the new AppleID rules, but that did not work. I have also tried deleting and recreating my account multiple times. I am definitely willing to try any more suggestions.

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ICloud incoming mail server

Good day all,
For most of the day yesterday I and many others were having difficulty authenticating iOS mail and OS X mail clients to the Apple "appleid.apple.com" servers. It may have been a load issue or a configuration issue on the servers (which are used for both mobileme and icloud. By mid-evening on the east oast of the USA the occurences of password reject were diminishing and now seem to have stabilized.
Today I am having problems with the incoming server bank at "p02-imap.mail.me.com". It either does not connect or does not respond in adequate time to satisfy the Apple mail clients.
I have 4 ex-family MobileMe accounts converted to iCloud. Three of them were assigned "p99-imap.mail.me.com" for incoming mail. The fourth was assigned "p02-imap.mail.me.com". In all instances the incoming mail server was populated during account migration and is not editable.
As an issue of curiousity, does anyone know how the incoming mail server was assigned? Did the first 250,000 of us get one server and the next another, etc.?
I suspect "pXX-imap.mail.me.com" is a server bank with load balancing implemented across multiple servers. Or maybe (shudder) we are hard assigned one physical server (p99, p02, etc.).
It would be interesting to know how Apple's new improved data center(s) have been logically configured for redundancy, load balancing and fail over.
Sorry - it's the geek in me wondering why I can't get my email from a specific Apple resource ("p02-imap.mail.me.com").
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Chris CA wrote:
CAP2010 wrote:
Unfortunately, no matter what I type into the incoming email server while attempting to recreate my account in Mail, the program always tries to connect to p99-imap.mail.me.com.
You don't have to type any server info for your iCloud account.
System prefs > Mail, Contacts & Calendars - New account and select iCloud.
Unfortunately, that was step 1 in the process of not being able to use my mail in iCloud. Also, I have tried changing my password to 8 numbers/letter, etc. in accordance with the new AppleID rules, but that did not work. I have also tried deleting and recreating my account multiple times. I am definitely willing to try any more suggestions.

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Hi, was it maybe setup as a MobileMe or dot Mac account in the first place?
You cannot use .mac or MobileMe as type of Account, you have to choose IMAP when setting up, otherwise Mail is hard coded to change imap.mail.me.com to mail.me.com & smtp.mail.me.com to smtp.me.com, no matter what you try to enter.
iCloud Mail setup, do not choose .mac or MobileMe as type, but choose IMAP...
On second step where it asks "Description", it has to be a unique name, but you can still use your email address.
IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:
          •          Server name: imap.mail.me.com
          •          SSL Required: Yes
          •          Port: 993
          •          Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
          •          Password: Your iCloud password
SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:
          •          Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
          •          SSL Required: Yes
          •          Port: 587
          •          SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
          •          Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
          •          Password: Your iCloud password
Also, you must upgrade your password to meet the new criteria: 8 characters, including upper and lower case and numbers. If you have an older password that does not meet these criteria, when you try to setup mail on your mac, using all of the IMAP criteria listed above, it will still give a server error message. Go to   http://appleid.apple.com         then follow directions to change your password, then go back to setting up your mail using the IMAP instructions above.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3867171?tstart=0
http://x704.net/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5807&p=69967#p69967

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