How can I get my iCloud email to work?

For this entire day, my iCloud email (me.com)has not been working. I can send but there is no incoming mail. My other email (cox.net) seems to be working, both incoming and outgoing. Earlier i the day I was asked to input my password each time but now that seems to be ok, it is just that I can get no incoming mail on the me.com account. How do I fix this?
It is working on the iPad....only my iMac cannot receive email to my icloud account.

Perfect! Here's someone else who did it with Lion. Is this the same thing that you are telling me? There are a bunch of people having this problem. Sure glad you are around with the solution.
SOLUTION OFFERED;
The same thing happened to me. Last night, everything was fine with Mail 5.2 with Lion. This morning when my iMac booted up, the incoming mail server for my iCloud account was grayed out and said www.example.com. It would not allow me to manually the incoming mail server.
I contacted Apple tech support through the apple website, and a rep immediately called me. He instructed me to:
1) Quit Mail
2) Go to System Preferences > Mail and deselect (uncheck) Mail
3) Reboot the computer
I just got home and tried it, and worked great.
Once I rebooted my iMac, the incoming mail server was populated correctly. I then went to
System Preferences > Mail and selected (checked) Mail
My iCloud mail now is current in Mail.

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