[MacGroup] .mac mail issues

2012-06-29 Thread Alex Whitman
I have had a dot-mac email address since 2002, but for the last few months I have only been able to fetch that mail on my iPad, not on my MacBook Pro or on my iPhone. The iPad apparently offers no user-defined filtering, so the amount of spam coming through makes the account basically unusable. I

Re: [MacGroup] .mac mail issues

2012-06-29 Thread Lee Larson
On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Alex Whitman wrote: > On the MBP, Mail.app's Connection Doctor says iCloud IMAP is connected, but > iCloud POP says, "Trying to log into the iCloud POP account failed. Verify > that the username and password are correct." They are correct. > > iPhone 3GS also says

Re: [MacGroup] .mac mail issues

2012-06-29 Thread Alex Whitman
Could you explain more fully, please? IMAP seems to already be there and I have no idea how to get rid of POP. Alex On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Alex Whitman wrote: > > On the MBP, Mail.app's Connection Doctor says iCloud IMAP is connected

Re: [MacGroup] .mac mail issues

2012-06-29 Thread Lee Larson
On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Alex Whitman wrote: > Could you explain more fully, please? IMAP seems to already be there and I > have no idea how to get rid of POP. I don’t think you can just convert an older POP account in Apple's mail over to IMAP. Here's what I'd do: (0) With Safari, log i

Re: [MacGroup] .mac mail issues

2012-07-02 Thread Alex Whitman
A little bit of progress: I got it working on the iPhone. On the laptop I am stuck at step (3) below, so I'm calling Apple for support. Thanks for your help. Alex On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Alex Whitman wrote: > > Could you explain more f