Mail account INCOMING MAIL field empty

Since upgrading to 10.7.2 I am unable to connect to a MacMe/iCloud account from my wife's iMac 20/ Mid 2007 though there is no problem with her GMail account or connecting to a MacMail account from my login on the same machine.
When examining the MacMail account in Mail/Preferences/Accounts the INCOMING MAIL SERVER field is empty, greyed & displaying mail.example.com, and unselectable. If I make any changes to the account info I get an "cannot have empty incoming mail server field" error messages when saving.
I created a duplicate of the account with a different name entering mail.me.com in the INCOMING MAIL SERVER field. When I made this account active the field again defaulted to empty.
Migrating to iCloud did not resolve this issue.
...rmk

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