Mac mail demanding ICloud Password

Mac Mail worked ok with my iCloud account until yesterday. Midway through the day it kept asking for my iCloud password and then worked ok but today it keeps asking for the password and won't connect. Has anything changed? I can access my iCloud mail via Safari but it's more automatic via Mac Mail

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http://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my-iphone.html
Did you have "find my mac" setup on your Air? If not the police are your only recourse to look for pawned items, etc.
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When I recieve messages to my @me.com account on my Mac, I don't recive them when I log into icloud.com website. All my sent emails from the Mac Mail DO show up in both places (Mac Mail and iCloud).
My iOS devices don't have this problem. Any one have an explanation or what I'm misconfiguring? I had the same problem with Lion as I am with Mountain Lion
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http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/contact

Lion Mail and iCloud Password

Alright, I've seen tons of threads all over forums for this, and no real solutions. And I'm wondering why:
Lion Apple Mail keeps asking me for my iCloud password almost every time I fire it up, or randomly when I've got it already open.
Why is that? I've tried deleting the password from the preferences/accounts and re-typing it several times. That didn't work. I've tried reparing the keychain with the keychain app, but that didn't work.
I don't get it. What exactly do I do? Nothing has worked. Do I delete the entire account in Mail and set it up again from scratch? Sometimes it'll ask me repeatedly for it and nothing works, so I have to cancel and quit, and then wait a bit and start Mail again and hope that it'll take it this time around. Sometimes it'll take it the first time I type it in. Sometimes it won't even ask for it at all.
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If it works now, it will work from now on.
If you check the preferences for that account, you will notice in the advanced tab that it uses Apple Token for log in. No password used. You can also make the other settings for Mailbox Behaviors.
Also note that when you sign out of iCloud or disable the account in the iCloud sys prefs that it will remove iCloud from Mail until it's re enabled or you sign back in.
Good Luck

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Mac mail not accepting password

Hi, my name is Christine. I am trying to connect to my mac mail account. It keeps prompting me for a proper password, however, when I type it in, it declines it. I am not sure why. I've tried different passwords but it still won't go online. Any suggestions?

Check the correct mail parameter.
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iMac mid-2011 2.7 i5 10.8.2
Approximately one week ago the application Mail began displaying the "Welcome to Mail" window prompting me for Full Name, Email Address and Password. Prior to this, my me.com and icloud.com emails were working with the application well.
At the same time, my finder began prompting for administrative password to alter (delete) any documents contained within the finder window.
Fearing that my ymail.com email was somehow attempting to connect to my mail application on the mac, I have since activated a gmail account and changed all programs, websites, profiles and information to the new gmail address, thereby removing my ymail.com address (it does not sync with the mail application unless one pays $20/year for premium services, which I do not.)
I have changed my email information through apple's "manage your ID" webpage.
I have signed out of the app store, itunes, and the mac's icloud and signed in again. The mail application still displays this window.
I have attempted to add my icloud account to iphoto and mail's preferences. The information activates and my emails begin to download. After a few minutes, all of the emails vanish with all signs of my gmail, and icloud email accounts.
I have also used the "get info" function to delete and add my permissions to include read and write. I have applied the changes. We have two user accounts on the same imac, both with administrative permissions.
I did not change any settings, download any applications, or updates, except for the ios 6 update for my phone on Monday 2-4. I had plugged the phone in to complete a sync several days ago.
I am currently at a loss. All applications and devices were working well prior to last week. If more information or clarification is necassary, I will do my best. This has been an extremely exhausting week researching what is going on to no avail. I do not understand why my computer is suddenly falling apart.
Thank you in advance.

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TS3276 Mac Mail rejecting correct password for incoming only

My e mail has suddenly started rejecting my password even though it is correct. I can send but cannot receive e mail. This has never happened before but I have no incoming messages on either my Mac or my iphone.

Something seems amiss if both your Mac and iPhone starting having this problem at the same time. Was anything changed in anyway?
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
We're users here, and several of us have apparently encountered the same problem today.
The solution posted by Tareg in this thread worked for me:
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How to stop ios mail deleting icloud email from mac mail?

This is driving me insane.
I have an icloud email address set up on my iphone and mac mail.
I want to leave emails on my phone 'on the server'. Read them when i'm out, delete them... come home and have them all come through on mail where i'll deal with them.
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Hello there David DW,
It sounds like your iPhone does whatever your iPad does with regard to joining or forgetting a Wi-Fi network. From what you are describing it seems to me that iCloud Keychain is enabled, as this is a function of that feature. The only way to stop what you are seeing from happening is to disable iCloud keychain on one of the devices:
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You can do this in your iCloud Settings:
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On your iOS device’s Home screen, go to Settings > iCloud, then tap to turn on or off iCloud features.
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Can not send email from Mac, iPhone, or iPad using mail using iCloud.

I can send email from the icloud web page but I get error messages that the icloud outgoing server is not recongized when I send email from my iphone, ipad and Mac mail. I can receive icloud email okay on all devices. I have manully setup a icloud server per instructions on icloud support page for mail's outgoing server name. It still is not recongized.

I found a work around that works. Got to Settings...Icloud....account......advanced....outgoing mail server.....
Add an "other" server.
Host Name p01-smtp.mail.me.com
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This worked for me.....I will use this until the bug is fixed. Don't make this server your primary. Leave it in "on" status in the other category.
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TS3276 I'm now having trouble getting mac mail to work on my mac. The mobile me account works great on iphone and ipad but it won't connect to my mail account. Password is correct. What else can I do? Using OS10.68

I'm now having trouble getting mac mail to work on my mac. The mobile me account works great on iphone and ipad but it won't connect to my mail account. Password is correct. What else can I do? Using OS10.68

HI,
The Apple IDs from @mac.com and @me.com (Older MobileMe and more recent iCloud Names) are also Valid AIM Screen names.
Any other sort of Apple ID is not a Valid AIM Name.
A Google ID that is associated with Google Mail Account (And has "Talk" enable on your Google Settings) can be used in iChat as Jabber Name/ID. (Google Run Jabber server).
Jabber and AIM are different IM Services and it is not easy or straight forward to add Buddies from one Service to the Buddy List of another. (As A Starting point consider it "impossible")
iChat 4 and 5 have links to the registration page of @Mac.com here with a "Get an iChat Account" button in the add (Account) screen (You select @mac.com or MobileMe and then press the Button - Choosing AIM and then pressing the button used to lead to the AIM registration page but AIM moved their page).
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Therefore you could make a Google ID into an Apple ID.
However this will not be a valid AIM Screen Name the way @mac.com or MobileMe/iCloud ones are.
Valid AIM Screen Names in Table (pic)
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How to change iCloud password on a remote Mac?

I use iCloud and Back To My Mac (BTMM) to access some of the computers I have overseas. Everything was fine up until yesterday when I had to change my iCloud password. I now have lost access via BTMM to those remote computers as they need to have the iCloud password updated in the iCloud panel in their System Preference (and the Back to My Mac option has to be disabled/re-enabled to have it restarted).
I have remote SSH access to those remote Macs (all running Lion and in one case Snow Leopard), so I have a working SSH shell on them. But I cannot figure out how to update the iCloud password that is stored on those Mac via command line. I can reboot them if needed of course remotely, I'd just need to update the password used for the iCloud services...
Having someone walk to those Macs, login with my account and have them enter the password for me is not really an option, as to do that I'd have to give them both my Mac's account password and my new iCloud password, which is not going to happen :-) In addition, some of the Macs are used by my parents and in-laws, with their computer skill being limited to knowing how to open Safari and the Mail app. They wouldn't be able to help in anything technical.
So... is there another solution other than buying a plane ticket to go overseas and do it myself?

In case anyone wonders, I was finally able to update my iCloud password ont he remote computer. The key was SSH.
Issue this command to connect via SSH to the remote Mac:
ssh remote_computer -L 5800:127.0.0.1:5900
This forwards all traffic from port 5800 on your Mac to port 5900 (the VNC/Screen Sharing port...) on the remote Mac.
Then open the Screen Sharing app from your Mac. From there, connect to:
localhost:5800
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