Mail on Mac stopped working

In last 24hrs my mail has stopped working on my Mac Pro. It is an iCloud account. All other accounts are working and the same iCloud account is working on my iPhone and iPad. I notice that the incoming servere info is grayed out wit the p01- infron of the incoming server info. Also, Mail is taking up a huge amount of memory. Also, I cannot delete the drafts of emails I was thinking of sending but couldn't. Thanks

Hi Roger,
Yes, thanks for all your help with your very informative links, Apple could (should) learn customer support from you.
However my wife's MacBookPro was changed over to iCloud a couple of weeks ago as she inherited my iPad 2 when I got a new iPad 3 (mind you it was always a fight as to who got the iPad 2 anyway) Unfortunately even though its still going strong it can't be upgraded to Lion so I went through all your very informative 'how to' when her mail suddenly stopped, as the OP said, due to the password being constantly rejected.
Having had Apples since 1988 I tried all the usual work abouts and fixes but to no avail and even your 'how to' gets nowhere either and believe me I've tried it three times being especially careful as to what I entered and yes the password is correct as she can get webmail on iCloud and on the iPad 2.
As JLStom says its a shame when "Apple help" say that the only thing is to go to Lion knowing full well you have a machine that can't install that version and just give up on you.
Anyway thanks again for all your help. Apple should appoint you Senior VP of Customer Services.
Mike

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