Cannot validate email in iMessage / Messages

I have several email addresses. One of them is my main email. On my iPad, iPhone, and Mac I registered several email addresses I own in iMessage / Messages, but always set the "Caller ID" to be this main email. Yesterday I stopped receiving the messages on my Mac (Mountain Lion 10.8.1) addressed to this email. I removed the email, re-added, turned iMessage off and back on. Nothing.
So I removed it from my iPhone and iPad too, thinking maybe I can re-add them to all to make it work. Nothing helped, and now none of my devices will receive iMessages to my main address!
In Messages, it just looks like this (minus the red blots ):
The last one that says "Validating" is my main email, the only one I care about!
One more thing: this email has a .mx suffix (not .com.mx) for Mexico. It used to work but I don't know if something changed on the server's end.
Thanks!

HI,
I have an iCloud ID (@me.com) and the older dial-up email that was my Long term Apple ID.
Effectively in other places they are the same account but in Messages as the iMessage ID they are separate ones.
I have interchanged them in Messages and find that both will log in.
What I have not done is test using one of the @Mac.com names I do have.
EDIT
I did test one and it asked that I allow a email to be sent to the email address (which this @mac.com has never been) and then sat there spinning.
I will try one or two others I have that might already be verified when I have a moment.
10:45 PM      Saturday; September 1, 2012
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