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Creating an "icloud.com" account has problems. Where can I find specific settings for this creation?

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Would like to create an "icloud.com" successfully. The account is displayed but connection is not successful and therefore cannot retrieve eMail messages. Can anyone share specific settings please?

Would like to create an "icloud.com" successfully. The account is displayed but connection is not successful and therefore cannot retrieve eMail messages. Can anyone share specific settings please?

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Could you please post your settings, and then we can see how they compare with what is advised by iCloud.com

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Application Basics

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 45.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0
   Profile Folder: Show in Finder
   Application Build ID: 20160407141108
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (pop3) pop.verizon.net:995, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , smtp.verizon.net:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true
   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account8:
     INCOMING: account8, , (pop3) pop.icloud.com:995, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , icloud.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true
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     browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
     dom.apps.reset-permissions: true
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     gfx.crash-guard.glcontext.deviceID: 0x0a29
     gfx.crash-guard.status.glcontext: 2
     mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
     mail.spotlight.firstRunDone: true
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     Device ID: 0x0a29
     WebGL Renderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M OpenGL Engine -- 2.1 NVIDIA-10.0.35 310.90.10.05b12
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     AzureSkiaAccelerated: 1
     AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none
     AzureContentBackend: quartz
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 Incremental GC: 1
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     NSS SSL
     3.21.1 Basic ECC
     3.21.1 Basic ECC
     NSS S/MIME
     3.21.1 Basic ECC
     3.21.1 Basic ECC
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Where did you get your server settings from?

The iCloud information page gives:

incoming (IMAP): imap.mail.me.com:993 outgoing (SMTP): smtp.mail.me.com:465

Your "OUTGOING: , icloud.com:465" seems most unlikely to work.

And they say they don't support POP, so "pop.icloud.com:995" also seems unlikely to work.

I suspect you didn't (or weren't able to?) let Thunderbird find settings automatically.

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I started from scratch and used the "incoming and outgoing" settings you suggested and Thunderbird failed to find the settings for my email account.

Please take a look at the attachment and see if there's anything else I may have overlooked.

Thanks

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They do suggest using your full email address - have you tried that?

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I have just tried signing up for an iCloud account myself. But I can't see how to get myself an iCloud email account.

I really don't like Apple stuff. This didn't do anything to change my opinion. :-(