[MlMt] Cannot connect to iCloud mailbox

[Zi Yan]

Thanks. After removing @me.com part, I can login.

The weird thing is before 4469, I was able to login without any problem.

Anyway, I will remember not to put my entire email address there again.

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Best Regards
Yan Zi

On 3 Oct 2014, at 15:17, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 3 Oct 2014, at 20:36, Zi Yan wrote:
>
>> After updating to 4469, I am not able to connect to my iCloud mailbox.
>> After I update to 4551, I am still not able to connect.
>>
>> The error is always authentication failed.
>>
>> I tried my iCloud password, application-specific password. Neither works.
>
> The most frequent problem with iCloud is the username for the IMAP settings. It should only be the username part of your email address and not the full email address. If that doesn't help then provide your account settings.
>
> The recommended settings can be found [here](http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4864). Interestingly (and inconsistently) Apple writes that the entire email address should be used for SMTP, but that does not seem to matter for my test account.
>
> By the way, r4551 should be able to import your iCloud account from Apple Mail. You can test this by right-clicking the account to “Remove Source” and then use “File ▸ Import Accounts…” to import it.
>
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> Benny
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