Apple rang this morning, and asked how things were going! I told them I had managed to resolve the problem my self. Telling them that in thinking the two stage security had been removed the problem in fact, had not been moved. So I went through the exercise of removing the two stage security check and did manage to remove it. This then created further problems in that it was saying I had now to change my password for the iCloud account. I was loathe to do this, but did it anyway.
Then in trying to send and receive emails from the iCloud account it became a nightmare. In trying to sign in it kept refusing. I checked and double checked all the settings and still it would not work either on my iPad or the iMac. In desperation I tried the new iCloud password. This worked. I thought, obviously in error, that the email account was self-sustaining and would have it's own password. No. It is the same as the iCloud account. I only changed the password after Apple were burbling on about the removal of the two stage security, which caused the problem in the first place.
I think the moral of this little episode is to be very careful when Apple ask you to do something without giving what the real results could be.
One final point, Apple said this morning that the basic problem did in fact rest with them in that their server was down for a period of time, this meant that things were not operating as was expected. Strange they didn't know until they did some "research" in to my problem!!
It is now all working.
Cheers
altv.
