ICloud Mail Not Always Sending

I've been using iCloud email for a couple weeks now and I love it except for one HUGE problem. I send emails or at least I think I do, but sometimes they don't send. In fact, they aren't in the sent items, aren't in the drafts... just gone as if they never existed. I did this last night three times in a row. I was sending an email to my work and I went to double check that it sent. 3 times I sent it but 3 times it vanished. iCloud email would be a no brainer for me if it was reliable. And I really wanted it to work. Very disappointed... would have made life so much easier.
Anyone know of a fix for this?

I figured out the problem. I had placed an example email address in the messages that iCloud apparently chokes on.
It was: [email protected]

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its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2234051/IMG_0001.PNG
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You can reset your Apple ID/iCloud password via the steps in the first article below. If you do not have access to the email account or are not receiving the password reset link, see the second article.
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The tl;dr version of my question: is there anything I can do from an end-user perspective to improve the odds that my iCloud mail messages will be properly delivered to others, or incoming mail properly received by me? I like iCloud, but this is something I never worried about with Gmail, though I would prefer to stay with a single service for personal information management (i.e., iCloud) as opposed to going to Gmail or Outlook.com for mail/contacts/calendars.
The slightly longer version:
I was formerly a Gmail user for many years. All of my hardware is Apple made, so iCloud makes sense, including for mail. I have multiple third-party email accounts forwarding to my @icloud.com address.
I have had intermittent reports of missing or delivered-to-spam messages which I sent from my @icloud.com address over the past couple months. Messages were sent from either the Mail.app on my MBP running Mavericks or from the native Mail app on iPhone. Software on both devices is always kept up to date. Messages appeared in my iCloud Mail sent folder without issue. No delivery delay/failure notifications were received by me for the messages which were reportedly not delivered.
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For the first part, that does beg the question whether this is something that is more of a problem with iCloud than it is other providers, for whatever reason.
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hello,
i have this new problem which i can not figure out so i am asking for your help.
the situation is as follows:
i own a .mac account since day 1. and moved to icloud. so did my wife. all worked fine till i decided to update her iphone to ios6 i think.
today she send me an email which i received on my ipad. the notification on my ipad said an email was received from my name. checked the email and the email was my wifes email, but with my name.
went to iclouds on ther prefs pane and saw that it was under my name but i could not change it.
went to apple id and change the name under her apple id to her name and everything changed under hers.
but mail app got all srewed up.
i have lost all her emails and the only thing i get is an inbox and the sent folder.
her web mail and iphone have all folders and emails so they are not lost from the server.
i can not seem to be able to connect the macbook to the icloud server.
i log out from her apple id, and icloud. relog but mail will not sync with icloud and give an error in the pref pane window of icloud. it sais that icloud would not be enabled and go to mail and add the account from there.
i try to do it and when i go to add the account the account is already there. the icon on the left in the accounts list shows the icloud icon with mobile me title and icloud imap description.
the details in the account are correct and already filled in and locked. the server is p01-imap.mail.me.com
i send an email from my account to my wifes email. her iphone received the email from my name to my name (yes my name) but under her email address since she received it. on the macbook the email never arrived.
if i delete the account in the mail app i will get all fields locked but only the alias pull down menu with her email address with the @mac, @ me and @icloud alias.
enabling and disabling the acount will not add an icon to the left. enabling will fill in the locked fields. but do not really make mail work.
quiting mail and reopoening will create an icloud account like before....all in a loop and it gts me really mad!
i can not describe the problem any better since i do not understand what is going on.
macbook is on lion.
pleasseeeeee heeeellllpppp
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