Mail, Snow Leopard and iCloud mail server settings

If I use the iCloud suggested settings as per:
ENTERING iCLOUD MAIL SERVER SETTINGS IN SNOW LEOPARD
as per Roger Wilmut's suggestions - http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html,
will all my other incoming and outgoing mail accounts still work as usual?
Thanks

Whatever you enter in your settings for your iCloud mail account, they will not affect any other mail account you have set up in your mail application.

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Upgraded to 0SX Snow Leopard and now mail is saying can't use this version of app mail. i have mail 3.6. HELP

I UP DATED MY MAC TO SNOW LEOPARD AND NOW MY COMPUTER IS TELLING ME I CAN'T US THE APP MAIL WITH THIS VERSION. I HAVE MAIL 3.6. PLEASE HELP

Snow Leopard and iCloud

I intend to leave my MB at OS10.6.8 when I switch over the iCloud on my iMac later this week. Is any/all of my mail/address book/calendar syncing going to cease on the laptop?

You can migrate from MobileMe to iCloud at http://me.com/move even with Snow Leopard: when asked to confirm that your Mac is running Lion just lie and say 'yes'. Of course you won't be able to access iCloud directly from your Mac.
If you have MobileMe mail set up to collect mail from external POP accounts you should cancel this before migrating, or you may find it still working in iCloud (where it isn't supposed to) and with no way of stopping it.
This will be the situation with Snow Leopard when you have migrated:
•Your email, calendars, and 'Find my iPhone' will be migrated to iCloud. Contacts and Bookmarks cannot be migrated from a Snow Leopard Mac.
•Your iDisk, together with website hosting and Gallery, will continue to work as before until next June.
•Syncing of Dashboard Widgets, Dock Items and Keychains between Macs, and Mail Accounts, Mail Rules, System Preferences, Signatures & Smart •Mailboxes between Macs & iOS devices, will cease altogether.
•You will be able to access email and calendars on the iCloud website at http://icloud.com provided your browser is reasonably up-to-date.
•You will not be able to sync contacts or bookmarks from a pre-Lion Mac.
•You will be able to enter the server settings for email manually in the Mail application and access your email.
•You will not be able to sync your calendars directly.
•Some people have been able to set up calendar syncing by using the method detailed here - this is an unsupported hack and may not be reliable, and may stop working at some future point.
•Address Book won't sync: this page has a convoluted hack to make it sync which has been reported as working (and as not working by others). I've not tried it.
There are a couple of third-party solutions which may be of interest.
•BusyCal is an iCal-like calendar application with extra facilities: it can sync with the iCloud Calendar while running on Leopard, Snow Leopard or Lion. A single user licence (two machines allowed) is $49.99.
•Soho Organizer can sync Calendars and Contacts with iCloud on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. A single user licence (multiple machines allowed) is $99.99.
(I have no connection with either firm.)

HT1338 Snow Leopard and iCloud

Is it absolutely necessary to have OS Lion to use the iCloud?

To use all of iCloud's features and capabilities, yes, you will need 10.7 or later. You can use iCloud email from Snow Leopard, and calendar and contact synching though it's not officially suported:
http://eggfreckles.net/files/bringing-icloud-to-snow-leopard.html
but that's about it.
Regards.

MobileMe, iCloud, Snow Leopard and the Mail app

I have a MacBook Pro with an Intel Core Duo processor and Snow Leopard. I cannot install Lion on the laptop. I have for now, and for the next coming year, no budget for a new Mac. A lot of money has been put, and will be, into the children and their studies. I cannot afford it now to buy a new Mac to have Lion and iCloud all over.
Should I make the transition of my MobileMe account to iCloud, to use it on my iPhone 3GS an iPad [1], then that will have the consequence that I will not be able any more to use the Mail app, and all its functionality, as far as it goes about the iCloud mail. It will not be synchronised. Will it still be available through the Mail app in some way? Or do I have to use the web interface on my Mac, for mail on icloud.com? Imagine that!
My God, first this Lion disappointment. Now this iCloud frustration. What I cannot understand, is why this is not possible for Snow Leopard? Working with the cloud, does that have so much restrictions? Or is it iCloud that makes this impossible? Or is it just plain gore catching money?
For the first time as a long time Apple user I'm looking around now for other solutions. It was goodbye, Steve. We will miss you. But it will become: goodbye, Apple, we will not miss you.

Add me to the very unhappy list
We have a mix of G5 macs, G4 Poerwerbooks, first generation Macbooks and Macbook Pros. The only machines that can be upgraded to Lion would be the Macbook Pros but due to the loss of Rosetta we also can't upgrade those.
Everything works great now with MobileMe but none of them would work if we upgraded to iClould.
This is totally unacceptable. The older machines work just fine doing administration work and would cost tens of thousands of dollars to replace all of them with new machines and even then with the loss of Rosetta wouldn't be unable to run needed software that has never been written for Intel.

Installed Snow Leopard and my mail is not incompatible (3.6)

I don't seem to be able to find any updates to the mail program anywhere!
My husband installed Snow Leopard last night, I get up this a.m. to open and read mail and there is an error message indicating that the current 3.6 Mail version is incompatible.
What do I do to access my mail now?
Can't even read any responses via mail because I can't get to it!

OK - I finally figured it out.
Go to Finder, Applications, click on Mail application.
It should auto-update after clicking.
It would have been nice if there was some type of indication on the box for the Snow Leopard on what to do to update/upgrade current software (versus having to do it manually)!

FYI: iCloud mail password rejected on Snow Leopard and earlier Macs

If you have set Mail up manually on Snow Leopard or earlier to access iCloud Mail, and if you have also enabled 2-step verification on your Apple ID, you will find your usual Apple ID password doesn't work. Apple are now requiring app-specific password for third-party applications to access iCloud if you have set up two-step verification (if you haven't set this up you won't be affected). Since Mail on Snow Leopard and earlier was not intended to access iCloud you will have to generate a password for it. Go to http://appleid.apple.com; click 'Manage your Apple ID' and sign in (you will be prompted for an access code sent to your trusted device). Select 'Password and Security'; click 'Generate an App-Specific Password' and follow the instructions. Once you have the password, copy it and paste it into the password field in the Account settings. You should also keep a note of it (though you can generate a new one if required).

Thank you Roger. Good, sound advice!
Andrew

Is there a way to share my Mail account and settings between two partitions, running Snow Leopard and Lion?

I have two partitions on my internal hard drive - one is running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and the other is running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Mail (5.0) is set up and runs perfectly on the Lion partition and I have not used Mail (4.5) yet on my Snow Leopard partition. I want to know if I can read, download, and save mail into the same user Library folder (probably the Lion user library) from both partitions...

You usually set up your mail accounts on a specific e-mail client programs such as Mail in OS X and Mail on an iPad, which will access the same remote mail server to have your messages show up on each device. Mailboxes can be synced in this way between two devices.
An alternative is to use the same remote application such as Gmail to access that service from multiple devices, so a dedicated e-mail client like Mail is not needed, but the availability of these depends on the e-mail service being used.

Using iCloud mail in Snow Leopard - AND restoring old mail system

I use Snow Leopard and cannot upgrade to Lion since my MacBook Pro is too old.
Apple discontinued my traditional Mail service last week and said it is now transferred to iCloud.
1. Is there any way I can get my traditional Mail service restored since I like it better than the "improved?" iCloud-based mail service.
2. What I don't like about the new iCloud-based mail service is...
a. Sent mail does not always appear in my Sent folder.
b. When wanting to file a recent mail message away, I have to scroll thru all the folders AND many, many sub-folders. The system does not let me hide the sub-folders so I don't have to scroll so long.
c. It seems as if the iCloud mail speed is much slower than the old non-iCloud mail service.
d. It is very hard to make to Contacts for ease in sending mail
3. IF there is no way to get my traditional mail service restored, is there a way to get the "classic" look if I am forced to use the iCloud mail system?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Valueman

Tomovich wrote:
But the archive and junk files are not shown like that online.
Display differences are cosmetic, ignore it.

My mail program frequently asks for passwords that I have provided and saved many times. I am running Snow Leopard and have run the Keychain repair a few times to no avail. Is there a fix for this or do I have to find another email program?

I am running Snow Leopard and have run the Keychain repair a few times to no avail.
Is there a fix for this or do I have to find another email program?

This is frequent, not just occasionally. All cancel does is stop the email from coming through until I provide the password.
I thought about it being on the provider's end but it never happened when I was using Entourage, I just don't particularly like that program.
I don't understand why this problem has gone on so long without Apple doing something to fix it but I will continue to look for alternatives to the Apple Mail program. If I find a good one I will let all know through avenue.
Thanks again to all who tried to help.

HT2500 Can I import my contacts from Gmail into Apple mail (Snow Leopard)?

Can I import my contacts from Gmail into Apple mail (Snow Leopard)?

That says Reset Documents and Data, not Contacts.
I want you to go to www.icloud.com, login and see how many contacts are there, because they are all the iCloud contacts. Any contacts that are not there, are not on iCloud.

Is there a way to access notes from iPhone 4 in Snow Leopard without using Mail?

I want to be able to access the notes from the iPhone 4 notes app on a Macbook Pro, running Snow Leopard, without using Mail. Is there a way to do this? Any good 3rd party software that does it without storing the information in the Cloud?

You could probably use something like PhoneView
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
but, frankly, I thnk that's more of hassle than just setting up an iCloud or other IMAP account on the iPad.
Even if Notes syncing is the only feature you use, it's going to be a far more seemless experience.
Matt

Sync Mail - Snow Leopard to Leopard

I have a PowerMac G5 as my main machine and a MBP for when I'm away. When both were using Leopard, I used to sync POP email (~/Library/Mail) from PM to MBP, work while away then sync back from MBP to PM when I got home.
I've just upgraded the MBP to Snow Leopard and on running Mail as a test it updated the existing out-of-date mailboxes. When I next go away, if I sync from PM to MBP, I assume Mail (v4) will update the mailboxes but when I sync back, will Mail (v3.6) on the PM be able to read them? i.e. is this updating a change of format?

My last sync was about two weeks ago so the mail on the MBP is two weeks old (i.e. no mail received by MBP since then).
I have just moved the entire mail folder ~/Library/Mail of the PM containing mail that's right up-to-date onto my desktop for safety then copied the corresponding folder from the MBP in its place. This folder has of course been updated to the new format by Snow Leopard. I then opened Mail on the PM and all seems to be well - the messages are all there.
I have not done any further testing but it seems that whatever Mail v4 does to "update" the files does not stop Mail v3.6 handling them.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable is in a position to experiment further.

In mail Snow leopard, the trash button was red, the unwanted mail orange, the type button is gone, help?

In mail Snow Leopard, the trash button was red, the unwanted mail orange,there was a type button. Now the type button is gone, the rest is grey, why?

I mean in OS X Lion of course. Same with Finder window: There used to be a 'Today' option, where has that gone? It was so easy to have an overview of the work you were busy with. Does anybody has a tip?

I am running Mac OSx Lion 10.7.2. My problem is I can't search on an external network server for a file with the finder toolbar anymore. Nothing shows up and it will not search. I was able to in snow-leopard and am no longer able to w. Lion. Suggestions?

I am running Mac OSx Lion 10.7.2.
My issue is that I am not able to run a search in the finder toolabar on a network server. No files show up nor does it search on the server anymore. I was able to run the search in snow-leopard and am no longer able to do so with Lion. Is there a preference I can change or some kind of app or program I can download that will help me with this issue? This is extremely problematic for me as I am searching for files all day everyday. Thank you!

Hello,
It isn't the fw in Network you want o use or look at, that's for something completely different.
My first suspect is the Power Adapter on the LaCie has gone.
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware>Firewire, what is listed there?
Reset the Firewire bus
If your Firewire or USB isn't recognizing any device. A solution which has worked for some whose hard drive became invisible in 10.4 was simply to follow these four steps to reset the Firewire/USB bus:
1. Shut the machine down.
2. UNPLUG the power lead to the computer and any firewire/USB drive or devices.
3. leave it for 10 minutes.
4. Connect back up and reboot.
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html

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