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I'd make the move to iCloud now, but since they didn't offer support for Snow Leopard, and I don't like Lion, I've been holding off on that. That was a pretty lame move, imo.

Just tried that method but after entering information I was greeted by a welcome to the cloud message.
Anyone know if I can reverse this process?

I am still using OSX 10.6.8 on my latest iMac, However in my house I have several functioning PPC/G3/G4 machines all of which are used to access mac.com/me.com email addresses & aliases.

I was informed by Apple that after a move to iCloud I would only be able to access those email addresses & aliases on the old Macs via browser.
That said, with my mac.com/me.com email being pushed to both my iPhone & iPad I made the leap to iCloud. As to being able to continue to use Mail on my non-Lion machines (all of them) after June 30, I am resigned to that. If that also happens to my Snow Leopard iMac I will just configure my iCloud mail to forward all of my mac.com/me.com to by ISP provided email address.

I continue to sync my mobile devices from my desktop iTunes, and use a mix of free Google Drive, Pogoplug, & Dropbox space for most of my file/image sharing tasks, along with my own free 1TB cloud space with my Pogoplug device.

MobilMe mail can be set up for iCloud use by following the instructions at this link: http://www.wilmut.we...icloudmail.html

I've done it on my Tiger and Leopard running Macs and it works. The only problem I encountered is having to redo my password a couple times before it seemed to accept the change.

 kbear2, on 14 May 2012 - 10:10 AM, said:

I moved one account over to iCloud and can still access it with MS Office 2011 Outlook. On another laptop, I can not establish an outlook account as it can not send a password in a form that iCloud recognizes. We can access the email via the web only.

There is one more account, that I'm afraid to move.

iCloud service has been very poor. I have continuing connection problems. I getting tired of Outlook informing me the connection is down. This occurs multiple times per day. I seriously looking for another email service.
Any suggestions?

It seem each time the move the email service it gets worst. I wonder if their servers are being overloaded.

Jim

I thought it was too good to be true. I called the 800 number (no waiting) and talked to a great guy that assured me that it was all legit and while I was on the phone walked me through the transition process, which was mindless, to get me moved and settled. Now that's the ol' Apple CS that I remember.

I am so glad that they did this. As I have seen it posted before: "Apple ya make beasts that last". I was expecting to have a new Tower by now, but once again, have chosen to wait until after WWDC to see what is announced. That could have put me past the iCloud trans date. So . . . this is great. I can keep my Mac.com addresses that I have had since the late 90's, when the service first started and was free, and that are known Worldwide. I'll lose iDisk, but now I have my own servers that I can archive to. So that's covered.

As far as access, I was told that it won't change and the POP settings that I am using now will all stay the same as can my client and method of access.

I'm confused by this. I've transitioned my mobileme account to cloud, and all my stuff is running Lion or the latest iOS, so no problems there. But does this mean that my mac.com email address will stop accepting email and only my me.com address will still get it? I guess I'm confused on what's coming or going, the mac.com and/or me.com accounts, or just the mac.com and/or me.com address associated with my current icloud accounts.

The only reason I care is that I still have some accounts with various srvices out there using my mac.com address, so if email sent to my mac.com address will suddenly stop getting to me, then I need to sort that out quickly.

 galt4020, on 14 May 2012 - 07:55 AM, said:

Why do you want to reverse it? Your mail will work, just like they said. Don't get hung up by the welcome message.

 jonyo, on 14 May 2012 - 11:40 AM, said:

Don't worry - your addresses will still work.

 jonyo, on 14 May 2012 - 11:40 AM, said:

My understanding is that for existing MobileMe customers (who may or may not have transitioned to iCloud) both mac.com and me.com addresses will continue to remain operational. New iCloud members though will have only me.com addresses.

 Atman, on 14 May 2012 - 12:16 PM, said:

Cool, thanks for the clarification everyone.

My take (I am not an authority.):
Two choices:
-Convert to iCloud and use the iCloud control panes on 10.7/ios 5 to set up all services. On older OSes, manually set up eMail, Calendaring. This works for me. MobileMe system pref on 10.6 says I have converted to iCloud.
-Convert to eMail only because you do not have anything with iCloud support and continue to use the MobileMe preference panes for setup. Not sure if calendaring will work.

Contacts? You will find that setting this up in 10.6.8 is a no function. You can manually edit a plist file and obtain a connection to the pxx-contacts.icloud.com server with your password exposed in the Address Book preferences. Your contacts will continue to duplicate in your local SQLite database (not on the iCloud servers!) with each sync. This is due to iCloud using UID as the unique identifier while AddressBook 10.6 expects X-ABUID. When it doesn't get X-ABUID it randomly generates a value which doesn't match the values in the local database so a new entry is created. It's a mess.

A few months ago I stopped receiving me.com emails on my iMac. Hardware restrictions prevented me from upgrading to Lion. I thought the only way to continue using the me.com address was by logging into iCloud and reading/composing emails online.

I solved the problem by setting my online iCloud preferences to forward all me.com email to another, non-Apple address. On the iMac, I compose emails using the me.com address, but deliver them through a 3rd-party mail server (Verizon, in my case.) And voila, ever since then I’ve continued sending and receiving me.com emails on my desktop.