ICloud e-mail on 10.4.11

Hello everyone
I am (still!) running OS X 10.4.11 on a G5 iMac and would like to be able to set up Mail to send and receive e-mail from my iCloud account as access to the web interface using TenFourFox is getting increasingly tricksy and slow.
I'm aware of various 'how-to' guides such as http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail2.html but I just can't get the setup to work on my iMac, using Mail 2.1.3
Setting up a new account, on the first screen I choose IMAP, then add the account description and then my full name and e-mail account (neither @mac.com nor @me.com makes a difference).
On the next screen I use imap.mail.me.com, then my username (@me.com) and password.  This connects OK.
On the next screen I use smtp.mail.me.com, check 'Use authentication', user name @me.com, and password.  I then get the message 'Trying to log into the SMTP servier smtp.mail.me.com has failed.  Please make sure the username and password are correct...' etc.
Any thoughts on how to resolve this would be welcome - thank you!

Thanks Roger - tried that just now but sadly no difference. 
If I ignore the SMTP failure, I've discovered Mail sets up the account and I can receive e-mails, but not send them.  It's a bit frustrating, but I do have Mail set up using 10.8.5 on my work computer so can at least deal with e-mail that way. 

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