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Microsoft Outlook 2010 won't link my iCloud @me.com email account
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Hey,
So, for about the last four hours I've been trying to get this thing to work!
I recently got a new iPhone 4s, which has iCloud, and I wanted to use iCloud to back up and store my contacts and calendar. Currently my contacts and calendar is in Outlook and I just sync it through iTunes, but I wanted to see if there was anything different or better about iCloud.
So, here's the issue:
Googling it and looking at different forums etc, it's apparantly easy! You set up an @me.com account, and link it to Outlook as you would any other way! If it doesn't work, then you choose the more advanced settings. Apparantly this is supposed to work... BUT IT DOESNT'T!
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong... I don't think I am... I've tried it a bazillion times!
I've got it to the point where it will (finally) log on to the incoming mail server, but it won't send a test e-mail.
It comes up with the error:
"Outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server."
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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What type of email account do you have configured in Outlook?
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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It's apparently a problem on apple's end. t-bird fails too. Try again later.
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I discovered that manually setting up the account (still) doesn't work but when i used the icloud applet in the Control panel to enable email, the account works in Outlook 2010. It uses p06-imap.mail.me.com as the incoming server (with ssl, 993), and p06-smtp.mail.me.com (with tls, 587).
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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I discovered that manually setting up the account (still) doesn't work but when i used the icloud applet in the Control panel to enable email, the account works in Outlook 2010. It uses p06-imap.mail.me.com as the incoming server (with ssl, 993), and p06-smtp.mail.me.com (with tls, 587).
Diane can you give a step by step resolution. I have no idea what all that means.
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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follow these instructions http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1625 but modify them with Diane's info "p06-imap.mail.me.com as the incoming server, and p06-smtp.mail.me.com as the outgoing server". Do not run the test option (it will fail), just save the mail account. then you need to set that as your default mail and close outlook. run the icloud control panel http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html and you should be good to go.
It worked for me, hope it works for you!
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Thanks for the info. I have outlook 2010 so I just followed the same instructions 2007 and it go the @me.com email to show up in outlook. Now I can't get the Icould function to show up to allow me to select the mail, contacts, calendar. It still comes up grayed out. Any thoughts?
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the icloud applet in the control panel is grayed out? You'll need to check in the apple forums for resolution.
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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Hi Diane,
Many thanks for your support. Your procedure is working properly between an email adress '@me.com' and Outlook 2010. For the another users, don't forget to check that your outgoing server use the same parameters that your incoming server and an authentification is required.
Best regards,
Chris.
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