Adding Mobile Me email account to Mail.

I've been trying to add my MobileMe (or .mac) account to Mail for days both manually and using the automatic set up but keep getting the message:
+"The MobileMe IMAP server "mail.mac.com" is not responding. Try checking the network connection and that the server name is correct. Otherwise, the server might be temporarily unavailable. If you continue, you might not be able to receive messages."+
I have tried continuing but can't send or receive messages.
Any ideas?

Hi.
Would this be the only account in Mail? or would there be others?
If it is the only one, you may want to try trashing Mail's preference file which is located in:
user->library->preferences and is called com.apple.mail.plist
This should reset mail so you can try again.
Vic

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