ICloud EMAIL specification?

Is there an iCloud EMAIL specification ...anywhere??
This seems very strange to me. I have searched the Apple knowledge base for answers to some basic questions about what can/cannot be done with iCloud Mail, but there is next to nothing available. I am talking about the SERVER SPECIFICATION here, not what any individual mail client can/can't handle.
My specific questions are (when I say "folders", Apple tend to call them "mailboxes" often):
1) What is the maximum amount of folders?
2) What is the maximum amount of characters in folder names?
3) Apart from forward-slash ("/") are there any other characters that cannot be used in folder names? (are they 'unicode' chars perhaps, or something?)
4) What is the maximum depth of nested folders?
I want to move all my email archives to iCloud IMAP (many folders)** – so they can be accessed from any of my devices and/or any computer via webmail, when wanted, instead of separate folders per email account spread across different email providers' servers.
(** I can just drag them into my iCloud account using Mail.app, and let them sync.)
Thanks in advance if you can find Apple's official word on this stuff (as an idea, it might even only be in the Dev centre Help section somewhere...perhaps?).
It just seems ludicrous that other mass email providers give such info, but Apple keep such basic stuff seemingly "hidden" away from users all the time, making decisions on possible usage thus being impossible.

...In fact this was Irish Applecare man's unhelpful email response (after over 10 days of me waiting patiently):
"Engineering have told me there are no public or developer documents explaining these limitations in iCloud.
I suggest you send a direct feedback to Apple via the feedback site
or a channel you have as a developer: http://www.apple.com/feedback "
I told you, Apple haven't a clue on the kind of info customers might need to know... same old same old, yawn.
The "support" side of Applecare usage is useless, as they tend to know nothing these days, unless it's a completely trivially easy type of question you happen to be asking them. It's just a laughable "add-on" to your product purchase if that's what you buy it for, so really if it wasn't for hardware failure cover, I really wouldn't bother.

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NONE for security type
Tic "Require Sign-in"
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> has anyone successfully set up multiple email accounts (iCloud/Yahoo/AT&T/etc.) on their Samsung Galaxy S4 Jelly Bean 4.2?
You're unlikely to find many people with experience of configuring multiple email accounts on a specific Samsung device, here on the Apple forum for an Apple service. Try the Samsung forums for help setting up your Samsung phone.
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Sangoma wrote:
Roger, I dont think its as simple as that. I migrated from MobileMe months ago when Lion first came out. I am on Lion 10.7.3 on a MacBook Pro, an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4S with the latest version of iOS5, they are all setup for iCloud not MobileMe, and iCloud email has not been working for two days on any of these devices. All my other iCloud services work just fine. Mail settings show the iCloud incoming server as p01-imap.mail.me.com and is not editable. So it may be related to MobileMe migrators, but it still seems that the problem is server side?
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Need to change my iCloud email address

I need to change my iCloud email address

Rathbone Hall wrote:
JasonDyet
Feb 3, 2012 3:05 PM
I need to change my iCloud email address
The answers to this post seem to refer to an iphone.
My question is regarding setting up an icloud account and password an my new MacBookPro. Everytime I click iClouds in Settings I am asked for the password for <[email protected]>.....an email I did not setup.
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An iCloud account is an iCloud account. It is not computer or iPad or iPhone specific.
Go here -> https://iforgot.apple.com
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-> iCloud: Create or change email aliases

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