Multiple iCloud mail accounts on one computer

We had a family pack on mac.com and when we moved the accounts to icloud (on the same mac), the mac can no longer get email from one of the accounts... icloud is not accepting the pasword for this account - however, withut making any changes to the account or password, mail is being retrieved without a problem on the ipad and iphone....and w can log into this acount wihtout a problem on icloud.com
any ideas???

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking here. If you're asking about multiple iCloud accounts on the same Mac, then yes this is possible. You can only have one primary iCloud account (you need a primary account for photo stream, Back to My Mac, find my phone and documents and data) you can set up secondary accounts at system preferences > mail contacts and calendars.
If you have already set up a secondary account and it isn't working properly try deleting it and adding it back again.
And for the avoidance of doubt, if you are migrating from a family Mobile me account, you need to migrate each sub account into a new iCloud account, there are no family pack iCloud accounts.

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