Apple’s great. iCloud still sucks. Especially since they clearly have only one engineer working on the project. Apple, I understand you want to sell new phones, new computers, and the whatnot. And trust me, us folks who love Apple products will buy them, eventually. You’ve got us hooked. But stop making the iCloud service so closed that I can’t even use the iMac I bought last year to access the service.

Here’s another workaround, in case your mail is broken:
http://www.macstories.net/news/configure-an-icloud-email-account-on-snow-leopard/

For quick reference, the mail server name is p02-imap.mail.me.com, because I suppose mail.me.com would have been too obvious. Fuckers.