Secondary iCloud account on new computer shows at only AIM?

So, years ago, I had a family .mac account (or .me) either way. I had my primary account and a secondary account. Which have been working seemlessly side by side on my old laptop.
I recently got a new Mac Pro, I wanted to start as fresh as I could. I did sign into my primary account and all my other accounts (gmail/AIM etc) seemed to be working fine.
But I just recieved a call asking if I had received an email that went to my secondary account. I had not, so I checked the accounts, and it IS there, but it is setup as an AIM (Messages) account, not an iCloud account (like on my laptop).
When I tried to remove it from Internet Accounts Preference Pane, it wanted to remove it from my laptop too. (Obviously I don't want to do that if I can't get it back with all the emails)
In Mail, it's showing up as an iCloud IMAP, but doesn't have an incoming mail server (just mail.example.com) and I cannot change that (grayed out)
Any thoughts on how to get my secondary account email back?!

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I have 4 iOS devices in the family: an iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, ipad 2 and an ipad 3, all with the latest iOS software.
Each pair has its own separate primary icloud account. So, one phone shares a primary icloud account with one ipad, the other iPhone shares with the second ipad. That allows us to keep most things separated as necessary. However,. the are just 2 things I wanted to across across ALL 4 devices: Shared Safari Tabs, and Find iPhone. I wanted to be able to see what safari tabs are currently open on ALL these devices, FROM any device of these devices. I also wanted to be able to see the location of ALL 4 devices from any of these devices. To do this, I set us a second shared iCloud account on all 4 devices.
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2) Personally, I have an iPhone and iPad, and so does my wife. So do our kids!
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@Sjazbec
I'm having some unexpected issues with aliases and can not wrap my head around it.
I'll try to explain what happens with my setup.
I have a [email protected] email address with iCloud.
I also made up to three aliases, with corresponding 'real names'.
Main for myself (primary) (real name: Bob)
Alias 1 for my wife and me (real name: Bob and Chantal)
Alias 2 for my wife (real name: Chantal)
Alias 3 for online purchases (real name: Marktplaats)
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I send someone an e-mail using an alias.
When they receive it, it shows it came from the alias address with corresponding 'real name', and that they can't examine it in some way to get my 'primary' real name or address.
Next, when they reply to my e-mail, it still shows at my receiving end, the alias address with corresponding 'real name', and not my 'primary' real name or address.
Finally, if I reply to them again, it still shows it as my alias address with corresponding 'real name'.
The thing is that it works as expected (1,2, and 3) until I reply to the e-mail that people replied to me (4).
The 'real name' changes into my 'primary' 'real name' (the e-mail address is the correct one from the alias). If I accidentally send this mail they receive an e-mail from another person. I can manually set it correct but it's an accident waiting to happen to forget to change it.
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