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iCloud email on Android - help?
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Ah - Nexus devices always have problems with automatic email setup - on my Samsung Note 2 - I just had to enter my iCloud email and password - it figured out the rest! Anyway here are the settings -
If these settings don't work for you - Google messed up, open a bug report and watch them do nothing. (Google stock mail really sucks for third party stuff.)
Can't safely connect to server.
(Certificate hostname not useable for server : mail.me.com)
my desktop client (mail.app) uses "p04-imap.mail.me.com" as the incoming mail server.
You might need to accept all certificates unfortunately - I hate to do it as it is a security risk but like I said - mail setup sucks on stock.
it didn't ask me to accept any, that's the error i got when i clicked next after entering the incoming settings.
I don't have a stock Nexus device to confirm but if I remember correctly - it is a checkbox that you have to check after going to manual setup.
Edit : Like this
A simple search of Apple's support site would have brought you rather quickly to iCloud: Mail server information.
doesn't work though.
incoming settings are accepted.
outgoing produces an error (tried both SSL options).
this is the error i get when trying to confirm the outgoing SMTP settings (incoming settings are accepted)
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Did you try the TLS settings instead?
Same issues I'm getting on my Android phone (running 2.2 Huawei skinned Android, I'm waiting for the 5S). I had a Nexus 4 for 4 months or so (before selling it, waiting for 5S as I said). If I recall correctly Apple's iCloud server settings were broken then (when I initially bought the Nexus 4). After searching around I found a thread that fixed my issues (a couple of slight settings changes basically). A few months down the road my outgoing mail stopped working, however the mail was already setup so I could at least receive, at a guess I would assume this was when the SSL handshake errors started happening. I can't find a fix anywhere for these issues
EDIT: Since using "TSL: Accept all certificates" things are working fine!
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I can confirm this. For WHATEVER reason, it has to be set to START/TSL in order for smtp to work.
Took me a bunch o' tries to figure it out. Thanks APPLE !