Manually set up 10.5.8 Leopard for iCloud mail

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10.5.8 Manually set up iCloud mail on Leopard's Mail applicaiton
****Setting up 10.5.8 Leopard is not supported by Apple's iCloud.*****
Setting up iCloud mail is at WILL.
iCloud: Supported system requirements:
Summary--This article explains the minimum system requirements for using iCloud. To create a free iCloud account, you must have either an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 or a Mac with OS X Lion 10.7.2.
To set up iCloud mail on Leopard 10.5.8, you can do the following:
Backup your email messages that are currently shown in Mac Mail Application.
MobileMe, Mail: Copying MobileMe or IMAP email messages to your hard disk
Summary--In Mail in Mac OS X, you can save copies of MobileMe mail messages to a local disk, for example if you want to create "backups" of MobileMe messages you have received. (This article also applies to any IMAP email account in which message caching is turned off.)
Remove you previous MobileMe account. (after making sure anything important is backed up).
1. Open Mail.
2. Click File > Add Account. (If this is the first time you've opened Mail, you'll                     be automatically prompted to add an                     account). In 10.5.8 Leopard uncheck "Automatically set up account", then select Continue.
3. Enter your
    Example: Full name-- Johnny Apple
    Email address-- [email protected] or [email protected]
    Password-- Enterpass1*
4. Choose the Account type.  Select IMAP.  Then, enter description (for example, "Johnny Apple's iCloud account").
5.  Enter the Incoming Mail Server, User Name, and Password using the following settings:
     ▪       Incoming Mail Server: mail.me.com
     ▪       User Name: Your iCloud email address (Don't add @me or @mac)
     ▪       Password: Your password
6. Click Continue to proceed.
7. Enter a description, such as "iCloud Outgoing Server"
8. For the Outgoing Mail Server enter: smtp.me.com.
9. Select "Use authentication" and verify you entered your user name (youriCloud email address without @me.com/@mac) and password.
    Then, click Create.
10. Verify your settings in Account Summary, and then check "Take account online."
11. Click Create to finish configuring your mail account.
12. After completing these steps, you can send and receive email via your iCloud account.

Answer 1

My gMail settings in 10.5.8 PPC & 10.6 to 10.10 Intel...
Email address: [email protected]
Incoming Mail Server: imap.gmail.com
Port 993 SSL
Outgoing: smtp.gmail.com
Use default ports I25, 465, 587)
Authentication: Password
In gMail Webmail you must check prefs to allow IMAP insteaad of POP.
Gmail send but not receive...
Here are two steps that have come in handy in related situations
1) login to gmail on your computer or device via a web browser
2) once logged in successfully, go to this URL to unlock:
https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptch
The Password rejection can confuse people since it's a catch all meaning...
This Password, Username, Authentication method... is not recognized on this Port to this Server, or a server end problem.
Or duplicate entries in Keychain Access.
If using a browser to login via WebMail works it's not Name or Password, but one of the other ones.
The receiving email ports are:
IMAP is port 143
IMAP-SSL is port 993
POP is port 110
POP-SSL is port 995
Outgoing ports are...
SMTP and SMTP-SSL is on ports 25, 587 and 465. Port 587 has to be SSL, and port 465 is enforced TLS-wrapped and is generally used by Outlook users.