On Monday, Apple announced iCloud, its new online cloud service, supporting email, photos, purchases, and backups. What was noted about the iOS 5 was the ability to create a free @me.com email address. When Apple released OS X Lion Developer Preview 4, they incorporated the iCloud service into the system making it a breeze to set it up. Unfortunately, Slow Leopard users and iOS 5 Beta testers don’t have access to the features Lion has. Many people would like the ability to set up their new free @me.com email inside of Mail.app on Snow Leopard. This neat little trick I discovered will allow you to get your new email set up and running on Snow Leopard. This trick does require you to have already setup iCloud on your iOS 5 Beta. There is no way to create an iCloud on Snow Leopard or Lion right now. Before proceeding make sure your running iOS 5 and have already set up iCloud.
Update: I guess some people were alerted about the iCloud me.com email password. Anyways, the password is the exact same as your Apple ID password.
First off, fire up Mail and visit Preferences. At the top there will be these tabs 
Click on Accounts.
Down at the bottom of the window there will be two buttons, a + and -
Click the + button
A sheet should appear showing this:
Fill it out with your info and then hit create. You will receive an error saying that it couldn’t reach the mail.me.com server, just ignore it and hit continue. At this part, it should be very similar to setting up a regular IMAP email. I can’t show you the next screen on setting up the incoming and outgoing servers as Lion doesn’t let me because of the support for iCloud. What you will need to do is change the drop down menu from the top (Currently saying: MobileMe) to IMAP, and changing the mail.me.com to
‘p02-imap.mail.me.com’
Update: Some People haven’t had success using the above server so try this one if the one above fails.
‘p08-imap.mail.me.com’
the username should just be the name before the @me.com and the password, or course, your password. Hit continue and it will verify everything, you might receive another warning of some sort, I didn’t but it has happened for some absurd reason. Nest up is the outgoing mail server. All that is needed here is one line. It would most likely be already there, but if it isn’t, the out going mail server is: ‘smtp.me.com’ Hit continue again and it will bring you to the completed screen saying something about everything being correct and just hit “Take Account Online” or “Continue”, not sure what the button is right now.
Thats it, if you have questions let me know by @mentioning me on twitter. You can find me as @Frankrockz
