Setting up an iCloud Account on Windows 8's Mail

To set up your iCloud mail account in Windows 8's Mail:

1. When using Mail, Go to Settings (by quickly moving your mouse to the top right corner of your screen and clicking on Settings when the icon shows up).
2. Click on Account, and then on Add an Account. From there, choose Other Account.
3. On the pop-up window, select IMAP, then click on Connect.
4. You will then be asked to enter you e-mail address along with the password. This won't be enough so make sure to click on the Show More Details link text at the bottom.
5. You will notice the form has expanded to ask for more information. Fill out the requested information like so:
• Email Address: johndoe@icloud.com (also works with me.com and mac.com domains)
• Username: johndoe (meaning, the part of your email address before the @)
• Password: ****** (your email account's password)
• Incoming (IMAP) email server: imap.mail.me.com
• Port: 993
• Incoming Server Requires SSL: checked
• Outgoing (SMTP) email server: smtp.mail.me.com
• Port:  587
• Outgoing Server Requires SSL: checked
• Outgoing Server Requires Authentication: checked
• Use the same username and password to send and receive mail: UNchecked (once unchecked, you will see 2 more form fields pop up.)
• Outgoing mail username: johndoe@icloud.com (your full email address.)
• Password: ****** (your email account's password)
6. Click Connect.
7. Celebrate.

   

   Awww yeah!

Setting Up Coldfusion With A G-Mail Account

One does not simply setup G-Mail in Coldfusion

I wanted to setup a mail account on a website i was developing so notifications could be sent out. I tried to configure my G-Mail account in my development environment. Even though my username and password were correct, Coldfusion wasn't able to actually send the e-mails. I had followed the instructions from Google but no dice. After looking through the error logs I found a recurring error message that read:

com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

It seems that even though the server name, username and password were correct, I needed to enable TLS (and after a few tries I found out you also need to enable SSL) through port 465. That seemed to solve the issue.

In short, when setting up your G-Mail account on the CF Administrator, make sure you specify stmp.gmail.com as the mail server, your full email address as the user name, your password, port 465, and make sure you have both SSL and TLS enabled, like  so:

After this I was finally able to send the e-mails. Boromir would be proud.