ICloud won't accept my email address in "set up"

I'm trying to set up iCloud and it requires that my apple ID must be an email address.My old ID wasn't an email address and when I try to replace it with my regular email address iCloud refuses it because it won't accept primary or recovery addresses.I'm planning to get an iCloud address once I have iCloud set up. How do I get past this catch 22?

You only have one e-mail? You unhappy because you may need to create e-mail with less characters? To be honest you surprised me, I have never seen that message, I suppose if you tell us how many characters the least we (users like you) can do is to say if we have seen or not longer e-mail addresses.

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