Apple Mail stopped syncing w/ iCloud on Mac

Without any updates or account changes I stopped being able to send mail via Apple Mail nor is it being pushed to my Mac. Iphone and going online via browser I see mail is on the server. I tried to send an image and the "outbox" never sent, instead showed a spinning gear. I removed the attached mail and tried to send a text only email and it failed as well.I migrated a month ago from MobileMe to the cloud. It worked until yesterday. I tried to send mail and it spun in perpetuity.
I can use gmail to send and receive but it's not my main mail system.  There are no warnings, no request for password and all connections are green via the connection doctor. I took the icloud mail account offline and put it back online. I have reviewed all the settings via Apple docs. All kosher except I see instead of imap.mail.me.com my incoming mail server reads p99-imap.mail.me.com. I have force quit Mail although it doesn't show it as nonresponsive. I have restarted the computer several times. Nothing would stop the gears from spinning next to the inbox and the outgoing mail box.
This went on for over 24hrs. I logged into my icloud online and have unread messages. I heard logging into the online account might help but it didn't and why would I need to be logged in a browser in order for the Mac connection to work?
What else can I check? Preferences to delete? Settings to reset? Thanks.

Hello,
I've seen this post and several other posts on these forums with the same problem I was having.
I made this quick video showing you how I got the iCloud email server back to working function.
http://youtu.be/vZddYjVxMbw?hd=1
Hope this helps.

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