Getting pretty irritating. I've got this notice for my me.com email at least 3 times in the past week now. I know I've set the thing to remember my password, but it periodically prompts me to re-enter it all the time. Anyone getting this bug too?
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Mail app keeps asking for iCloud password.
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Same here. My iCloud mail is the only culprit. Embarrassing, because I wanted it to become my main personal mail account, however, it isn't reliable--only a nuisance.
I have had that problem regularly with just one of my iCloud accounts, oddly enough my old .mac account. I went to Keychain Access and deleted all references to it and and logged back in; after reentering the password I haven't had any further problems.
I tried this the other day and was unsuccessful. Perhaps I have so many entries in the Keychain that I'm not altogether sure which ones refer to iCloud mail and which ones are Apple login information elsewhere. What should the keychain entry be called?
Same here but only with my iCloud account. Ah well, it doesn't happen that often.
I had the issue yesterday and called Apple. The guy said they were having issues with the cloud/mail and that was causing this issue.
Not very reliable
Not very reliable
Here is another active thread on this topic. How do we merge?
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=14588064&posted=1#post14588064
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=14588064&posted=1#post14588064
Opposite for me - never happens with iCloud, often happens with SKY or with Hotmail, sometimes Yahoo. I have about 7 different accounts and the most annoying thing is that all the rules and mail downloads stop happening as soon as you get a popup asking for a password. I have a load of rules that file jung mail or other mails into iCould mail folders on my desktop. If it craps out when I am out and about, I start getting all that crud on my iPhone or iPad.
Almost as annoying as on the iPhone/iPad when you lose 3G signal in a no-wifi area, try to check your mail or even read existing mail, and get 14 dialogs, 2 per account, telling you it can't access your mail. The same if you try to send anything. At least the BlackBerry shuts up, takes your submission and mails it when it can! Poor design.
Oh - and I am 10.7.3 latest update of everything!
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icloud password issue
This has been happening to me since I signed up for icloud. I have an iphone, ipad2, and macbook. None of my devices consistently respond to changing my password, either in manage my account or locally, and I keep getting popups that my password for my email at mac.com/me.com was entered incorrectly. I thought that the whole point of the icloud was to "seamlessly integrate". Instead, the reverse is true. Not to mention the convoluted and overly rigorous password "rules" that make coming up with a new password over and over a real pain. Uggh.
This has been happening to me since I signed up for icloud. I have an iphone, ipad2, and macbook. None of my devices consistently respond to changing my password, either in manage my account or locally, and I keep getting popups that my password for my email at mac.com/me.com was entered incorrectly. I thought that the whole point of the icloud was to "seamlessly integrate". Instead, the reverse is true. Not to mention the convoluted and overly rigorous password "rules" that make coming up with a new password over and over a real pain. Uggh.
Interesting. I have this server as well. I am not aware of a way to change it. In theory, you could delete the account and manually enter all the information, provided you knew the details for a working server.
I followed the directions below and the problem has gone away. I hope this helps others while we wait for Apple to repair the other servers.
Originally posted elsewhere on the forums by djshack:
"First, turn off Mail and Notes in iCloud preferences.
Then, in Mail, add an account using your full @me.com address as username, your password, and the IMAP server "imap.mail.me.com". The SMTP server is "smtp.mail.me.com", and uses authentication.
In Mail.app, hold "Option" when you click "Continue" after entering your email address and password to prevent Mail from automatically adding an iCloud account.
Now, you're essentially using iCloud email separate from the rest of iCloud, and so far with this setup, I have not had any issues.
For more information on the server settings, see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864."
Originally posted elsewhere on the forums by djshack:
"First, turn off Mail and Notes in iCloud preferences.
Then, in Mail, add an account using your full @me.com address as username, your password, and the IMAP server "imap.mail.me.com". The SMTP server is "smtp.mail.me.com", and uses authentication.
In Mail.app, hold "Option" when you click "Continue" after entering your email address and password to prevent Mail from automatically adding an iCloud account.
Now, you're essentially using iCloud email separate from the rest of iCloud, and so far with this setup, I have not had any issues.
For more information on the server settings, see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864."