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how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

glb613 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:59:52 GMT

I've been looking for over a hour and can't find the information I need. I find how to change my Apple ID but, that's isn't what I want. I have an @me.com e-mail account and have forgoten the password. I want to get to the settings where I can change the password. Does anyone know how to find this?

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

ChynnaBlue — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:20:48 GMT

I'm not sure you can anymore. It looks like they disabled that option a few years ago and now your AppleID password is the only password. The second to last response in this thread sort of explains it, but I can't find anything better.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4335276?start=0&tstart=0

That sounds weird to me, but I guess you can try it. I don't know how the email would know that it needs to accept a new Apple ID password and not your old email password, but maybe changing the Apple ID password triggers that.

You may have to call Apple Support on this one. Good luck! Let us know what you find out.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

glb613 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:05:48 GMT

I was never able to change only the password for my @me.com account so, I had to change the password for my Apple ID. My Apple ID password is now the password for my mail. For all I know, maybe it's always been that way. It's not a problem but, you should be able to change password separately for each Apple account you have. Oh well, at least now I can sign into my account from other devices or away from my main computer.

This has been the most frustrating day in my tech world. I've been on the phone with Comcast tech support multiple times over 3 days trying to get my e-mail accounts fixed. I had e-mails being blocked due to spam filters being set (not by me) I couldn't change. One spam filter was at the server level which you can't change. Only by asking or maybe demanding I speak to a supervisor did I finally get the problem fixed. Well, I think it's fixed. I'm considering changing my default or main e-mail address to my Apple account because of the blocks.

One of the questons I was asked was how many e-mails were blocked? How would I know if they never reach my inbox. Geesh!

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

skuggles — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:31:28 GMT

@glb613 Have you seen this? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3693720?start=0&tstart=0

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

dooBdoo — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:37:12 GMT

@glb613, It sounds like you resolved this, but just as a reminder the Keychain Access utility application holds a wealth of login data.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

glb613 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:08:00 GMT

@skuggles wrote:
@glb613 Have you seen this? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3693720?start=0&tstart=0

@I did that and it changed my Apple ID password. Apparently, your @me.com password is the same as the one used for your Apple ID.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

glb613 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:09:42 GMT

@dooBdoo wrote:

@glb613, It sounds like you resolved this, but just as a reminder the Keychain Access utility application holds a wealth of login data.

@I have no idea what that is or how to access it. I set up my @me.com account in 2013 and I don't know if at that time I had a separate password or not. It wasn't written down anywhere so maybe it did.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

dooBdoo — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:18:59 GMT

glb613 wrote:
dooBdoo wrote:

@glb613, It sounds like you resolved this, but just as a reminder the Keychain Access utility application holds a wealth of login data.

I have no idea what that is or how to access it. I set up my @me.com account in 2013 and I don't know if at that time I had a separate password or not. It wasn't written down anywhere so maybe it did.

If you look in Finder, it's in Applications, in the Utilities folder. Just take a look when you have some time to

browse. It can be helpful in some cases.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

glb613 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:26:27 GMT

@dooBdoo wrote:
@glb613 wrote:
@dooBdoo wrote:

          @glb613, It sounds like you resolved this, but just as a reminder the Keychain Access utility application holds a wealth of login data.

@I have no idea what that is or how to access it. I set up my @me.com account in 2013 and I don't know if at that time I had a separate password or not. It wasn't written down anywhere so maybe it did.

          If you look in Finder, it's in Applications, in the Utilities folder.    Just take a look when you have some time to
browse.   It can be helpful in some cases.

I looked but there weren't any passwords listed. I'm not sure how this would help.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

jaxs mom — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:55:41 GMT

https://appleid.apple.com/#!&page=signin

Click the link forgot your id or password.

I don't know how long it's been since you logged into your me.com account or if you already have security questions or a recovery email set up but it's worked for my me.com account recently.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

jaxs mom — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:57:20 GMT

@glb613 wrote:
@skuggles wrote:
@glb613 Have you seen this? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3693720?start=0&tstart=0
@I did that and it changed my Apple ID password. Apparently, your @me.com password is the same as the one used for your Apple ID.

me.com is considered an apple id.

I have 3 different apple id's, one of which is my me.com and yes it's still active.

Re: how to recover my @me.com e-mail account

glb613 — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:53:24 GMT

@jaxs mom wrote:
https://appleid.apple.com/#!&page=signin

Click the link forgot your id or password.

I don't know how long it's been since you logged into your me.com account or if you already have security questions or a recovery email set up but it's worked for my me.com account recently.

I access it on a regular basis. It just isn't the main account I use. Not knowing my password, or not knowing it was the same password as my Apple ID, made it impossible for me to add the account to other devices.

I've been having problems with Comcast's spam filters blocking legitimate mail. In fact, I was at the club meeting yesterday and found out everyone with a Comcast e-mail account is having club mail blocked. While I like not having a mailbox full of spam, I want to be the one who decides what's spam and what isn't. Had I known the password was the same as my Apple ID, this would have been a none issue. Thanks everyone for their help.