Here's a tip to get the Mail program in Snow Leopard talking to iCloud

Question

I don't know what Apple did today, or very recently, but my Snow Leopard systems can no longer get to my email account, which is a MobileMe to iCloud conversion. Its been working just fine prior.
It looks like the server names for MobileMe dropped off -- either a screw up or permanently. Here's what I did.
Firstly, the server names have changed, from "mail.me.com" to "imap.mail.me.com", and "smtp.me.com" to "smtp.mail.me.com".
So, if you go into your preferences in the Mail program, if you had previously set up a MobileMe account, you will notice that it will not let you just punch in new values. What to do? If you try to create a new account with same email address, it won't let you! Should you delete the account and then create a new one? I felt quite uncomfy doing this, as I have huge amounts of email stored in various boxes.
Being a geek, here's what I did instead. Closed the Mail program. Go to the preferences file for it, which is the Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file. Edit the file (with TextEdit or Plist Editor). Find the item 'MailAccounts". Find the account that has your "@mac.com" or "@me.com" address. Change the AccountType item from "iToolsAccount" to "IMAPAccount". Save the file.
You can now relaunch the Mail app, go into the prefs and correct the incoming and outgoing server names as mentioned above.
Hope this helps someone!
And I hope, that with all the bucks Apple has, they actually learn how to support their stuff that is older than a week!
Cheers,
-Rick

Answer 1

It should be at the far right of the New Message pane. You might need to enlarge your window. If not, do View > Customize Toolbar to put the icon where you want it.