Mail preferences on iMac

I was fiddling with our email settings a few hours ago. (I was actually trying to follow instructions to get a "mail delievered" message and it involved me going into Terminal and typing in code). So since I tried to do all that, it seems that I can no longer send emails from the iMac. I can still receive emails and I can send and receive, using the same address from my iPad mini. I assume I have unwittingly changed our outgoing mail server information. What should it say? our mail provider is iCloud.
In account information in Outgoing Mail Server it now says "iCloud". The server name is "smtp.mail.me.com" When I first noticed this problem a few hours ago the Outgoing Mail Server said "none" so I've added this in. Not correctly??
Could someone please help me be able to email again! I'm on Mac OS X version 10.6.8

That's the correct server. I would recommend deleting the account from Mail and setting it up from scatch following the instructions here:
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard

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