Icloud mail still pulling emails from external account

Hello,
I am a former dotMac and MobileMe user.  I had set up the mail interface to pull emails from an external account.  After migrating to iCloud very early, emails are still being pulled, although this *should not happen*, because iCloud does not offer this service.  The problem is: how do I disable this behaviour?  There is no preference pane where I can set this.  It's quite astounding that my mail is basically being provided by uncontrolled services running on Apple servers, even if they should not be running. 
Any suggestions?
Regards

Your complaint is different from the OP's - he wants to stop it and can't: you want it to work. I'm afraid it won't - the facility is not available in iCloud, though as we've seen a few people are finding it hanging over.
You can still do one of two things perfectly easily: set up your other accounts separately in the Mail application; or set the other accounts to forward to your @me.address - most ISPs can provide this facility and it was always preferable anyway to collecting the email. It will arrive immediately, for one thing, rather than up to 15 minutes later.

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