Suggestion and a question about iCloud

My suggestion; I have already experienced confusion in recipents of my e-mails when Apple changed my mac account to mobileme and they started to receive mail from me.com rather than mac.com. I added the following message to my signatures
NOTE: My e-mail address may appear as me.com rather than mac.com. This an alias and NOT a change in address
I have now changed this to
NOTE: My e-mail address may appear as me.com or icloud.com rather than mac.com. These are aliases and NOT a change in address
Now my question. I have an iMac OS X 10.7.5 and have agreed to 'tune in' to iCloud and after a few minor glitches all appears well with Mail etc. HOWEVER I also have a MacBook Pro which I have not upgraded from OS X 10.6.8 because I still have some Power PC programs on it that I have not yet found satisfactory replacements for. My assumption was that the change to iCloud would not affect my using Mail on it. However, although I am receiving mail directed to either mac.com or me.com intermittantly (rule rather than exception) I cannot send mail and get the message "Cannot send message using the server smtp.me.com". If I adopt the edit option to change to either my @me.com or @mac.com it makes no difference. I I adopt the option to try later, it may or may not go but often many hours later. Any suggestions/explanations?
Thanks

The "trick" is to watch which "signature" you are using, and which mailserver that "account" is linked to.
This has never been clear in any Apple documentation, which is poor at best, and anything but inituitive.
And the article mentioned above it is badly out of date (despite a revision date of July 2012).
It is simply WRONG.
"For the Outgoing Mail Server, enter: smtp.me.com." is NOT correct. In my case, my Icloud server lists itself as "iCloud (iCloud)"
What happens is that when you reply to a message, it will adopt the signature associated with the incoming address. @me.com for example, and use whatever you have configured as THAT account's outgoing mail server.
If in your account setup, you have NOT defined your Me.com "account" to use "icloud.com" as its smtp server, it will attempt to continue to use "smtp.me.com"
Of course there is always the possibilty that Apple has broken their mail handling facility -- again.

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