I have setup iCloud on my Mac Lion and everything worked fine until yesterday. When I open Mail app and try to access my iCloud email, it pops up error message “The server returned the error: The connection to host p03-imap.mail.me.com on port 143 failed.” or “The server “p04-imap.mail.me.com” refused to allow a connection on port 993.” And it also ask to enter password for my iCloud mail account. Doing that but nothing happens. Everything is working from The iCloud System Status page.
Apple has changed something and the mail app has wrong settings. You need to delete your iCloud mail account in Mail and re-add it. Note: All your mail won’t be removed by the steps, because they are stored on the Apple server.
Apple seems to have gotten too big to care for the little insignificant customer any longer. I so frequently can not connect to my email in the “icloud” I am (after over 2 decades of being a faithful Mac user) about to move away from the cloud and possibly from apple. The price of growth, I guess……
I am having same problem
I am having the same issue. Did you figure out a solution?
Same issues here too. I’ve waisted soooo much of my time trying to fix this crap all the time!