Q: What happens if you don't have Lion or Mountain Lion?
All new iCloud Mail accounts now come with an @icloud.com email address. As an existing user, we'd like to offer you this new address as well. We have reserved xxx@icloud.comfor you, and you can now use this address with your iOS devices and computers by following these simple instructions. |
If you prefer, you can continue to use your current email address just as you always have. |
No matter which address you use, you'll continue to receive all your mail, whether it's sent to your @me.com, @mac.com, or @icloud.com address. |
In the simple instructions it says.....
In OS X Mountain Lion or Lion v10.7.2 (or later)
- Go to Mail Preferences > Composing.
- Click the Send new messages from drop-down and select the @icloud.com email address you’d like to use.
Npo mention of other versions of OSX??????
Posted on Dec 8, 2012 8:34 AM
If you have an earlier system and have already set Mail up manually to receive your iCloud email, go to Mail Preferences>Accounts, select the iCloud account and in the 'Email address' field add the @icloud.com version of the address, separated from the other(s) by a comma. (If you already have two addresses in there so that the end of the line is the right-hand side of the field, click in it and hold the right-arrow key down until you reach the end of the list). The @icloud.com address will now appear in the drop-down 'From' list when you compose a new message.
If you have an existing iCloud account and have not set up your older Mac yet, you can set Mail up manually to receive the emails (though you cannot open a new iCloud account on a pre-Lion Mac):
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard
Posted on Dec 9, 2012 2:50 AM
