Help! iCloud Mail aliases disappeared!

The 3 Mail aliases I had since a long time associated with my iCloud (before Mobile Me, still before .Mac) account have suddenly disappeared.
When someone tries to send me an email to one of my aliases, it is bounced with the following message: "5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias".
On my iCloud account in Account Preferences in Mail on my iMac, the aliases are still there. But when I try to send a message with one of them, it can't be sent with the following message: "From address is not one of your addresses".
I can however still send and receive messages with/to the main email address of my iCloud account.
The same happens on my iMac, on my iPhone and with iCloud on Safari.
When I go to Account Preferences in iCloud.com on Safari, it shows "0 of 3 aliases in use". When I try to add back my aliases, it shows "Alias unavailable".
This is a big problem for me: people send me email to my aliases all the time, instead of to my main email address.

Problem resolved.
See https://discussions.apple.com/message/26034075 for more info.

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