my husband does not want to move to iCloud. As long as I don't sync his computer or update to Lion on his computer it should be Ok to just make sure he gets email as one of the choices without iCloud right??

I have Lion and am not using iCloud. Just because a feature is available does not mean you are required to use it. Just ignore it (it will show up in the System Preferences and if a dialog comes up in the beginning to set it up for you, just hit skip or ignore (can't remember what it said).

Edit: Just read your post again: so does he want emails through iCloud or through your regular ISP (the way he is getting it now). Or does he have a mac. or me.com email address? In that case, he will need it because that is being discontinued.

If he is using an Apple email address, @me or @mac, then Apple has posted what setting need to be in any email program to access them when those address are moved to iCloud when you done use iCloud.

You'll have to search the Apple KB for it as I don't have a link to it.

Doing that will allow for web access of iCloud email account only I believe? Here is the link:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929

No that is not it. There is a KB article on the server settings to access the iCloud mail servers from any email program.

As it is just a Mail server like any other.

Mail settings when not using iCloud:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864

Only thing is that the smtp.mail.me.com probably won't work. Use smtp.me.com.

Oh, okay, I misunderstood that then. In any case, Glenn was nice enough to post the right one.