A @mac vs @me e-mail question

Hi Apple Support Community
I am having a problem with my iCloud e-mail adress; this story line should explain the problem in detail:
Storyline
I created my @mac.com account when I bought my first mac,
Soon after, I tried a 60 days @me.com trial, which I didn't keep.
Now iCloud came along, and I set it up using my @mac.com account.
The problem
In mail, I can't send or recieve e-mails using my @mac.com account.
I can, however, do this if I use my old @me.com acount.
Does anybody out there know how to fix this?
I would prefere to delete anything related to my @me.com account, since I don't use this for anything.
BR

Don't know about iWorks as I do not use it (although there must be a settings panel for your information that contains the email address I would assume).
This site goes by the AppleID you use when logging in.  So, if you are still using the @mac.com AppleID, you can go to https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/ and choose the "manage" button to change that email to an active one.  However, you cannot change it to your iCloud @me.com address, since upon creation that address automatically also became an active AppleID and you cannot merge or rename an acitve AppleID with another active AppleID.  You now have two AppleIDs, like it or not, one is your @mac.com and one is your @me.com.  You can change the @mac.com one at the link above to any other email address you have as long as that email address is not already used as an active AppleID.  You cannot change the @me.com one.
Note that as long as you change an AppleID primary email address through the appleid management web site, the account lives on as before, just effectively re-named.  In other words, while that AppleID effectively changes to the new email address, internally, Apple still keeps all the previous purchases and such to the account intact, so you do not loose any purchase history (think of your AppleID as the name to an account, but that account also has a unique ID for internal book keeping by Apple - change the AppleID using the web site, and the account internal ID simply gets linked to the new AppleID with all the account history intact).
If you wan this site to use your new iCloud @me.com, you will need to log in with that email address (which as I say, is also an active AppleID by default).  In iWorks, you need to find whereever it sets the user's info and change the default email there.

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