I can't send mail from my new @me account on my iPad tried everything and I am not able to get it working, any help will be appreciated .
Sending is the issue, tried using another suggested Setting failed again.
Just saw this solved in another thread - you have to go on iCloud.com, click on your profile, and then your apple ID, and it'll pop the Apple ID management site - you need to set the password to something that contains at least 1 capital letter and 1 numeral, then it's working fine. The initial setup allowed us to use our old weak-sauce passwords to connect up things, but they are nudging us toward a slightly better security.
Same for me on my iPad. As soon as I press Send I get p05-smtp.mail.me.com connection error. I tried setting up additional SMTP servers but it does not work. But from my iPhone all is good.
Here's one.....
Settings->iCloud->Account->Mail->SMTP then click Add server. Type smtp.me.com, your @me.com address and password. It will take some seconds to verify. When done it will NOT list the new server but not too worry.
Its a workaround till Apple gets their smtp servers working correctly.