me.com mapping to icloud.com?

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me.com mapping to icloud.com?

Until today I used me@me.com for email. Today my Apple devices are sending my mail as me@icloud.com, even though the From address says me@me.com before I send it. My iCloud account and my own Contacts entry both list me as me@me.com - me@icloud.com is not in my Contacts entry, though it is listed (can’t remove) as an alternative address in Settings > Mail for my iCloud account. When I click on the From address in mail I’ve sent, it brings up an abbreviated Contact for me showing just me@icloud.com, not my real Contacts entry.

One reason this is a issue is because a mail service I use only accepts mail from me@me.com.

Anyone else notice this or have a solution? I’ll switch to using me@icloud.com if that’s what Apple wants, but it’s not painless.

iPhone XS Max, iOS 14

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 3:24 PM

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davidmenges Author

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Oct 26, 2020 5:10 PM in response to zinacef

Talked w senior AppleCare tech, who may not be authoritative, so this may not be accurate. The story appears to be what I feared. Apple is phasing out mac.com and me.com (I knew you could only get icloud.com accounts now), rewriting those addresses as icloud.com on the server end. This is currently happening only on iOS devices, not Mac yet (confirmed), which doesn’t quite make sense. Supposedly it is not an effect of a recent iOS version but a slow rollout to customers.

In most cases the old domains will work forever, but not for me - besides immediately breaking one service, I don’t want to have to deal with the inevitable confusion for years. I’m changing my advertised email address from me.com to to icloud.com everywhere, and even my iCloud login if possible.

My advice to Apple is “announce changes!”. I’ve always been an Apple fan, but this is a bit irritating.

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Oct 26, 2020 5:38 PM in response to davidmenges

Right, and the link previously provided included a post with a MacRumors article that this seems related to Mail in iOS 14. So it should get fixed in an iOS update. Those @mac.com and @me.com are plain old iCloud email aliases, so they are not special in that sense and haven’t been since the end of 2012. Since aliases seems broken in Mail, makes sense they would be also as well as any custom alias anyone may have made.

Apple may also have made changes to their iCloud mail servers in terms of how it handles those aliases, but it’s definitely a recent bug that either is coincident with iOS 14 or an actual bug in iOS 14 Mail.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/29/email-aliases-not-functioning-properly-in-ios-14/

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zinacef

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Oct 26, 2020 3:28 PM in response to davidmenges

Wonder if it has anything to do with the following -- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251855715?page=2

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Oct 26, 2020 5:18 PM in response to davidmenges

Apple already phased out @mac.com and @me.com as independent email domains years ago. MobileMe was shut off in the fall of 2012. Ever since fall of 2012 all @me.com and all @mac.com addresses have been nothing more than standard email aliases to your @icloud.com inbox. They cannot be phasing out something they already did so nearing a decade ago now.

See -> iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support

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davidmenges Author

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Oct 26, 2020 5:49 PM in response to Michael Black

Thanks for this link. So it is a new iOS bug - this makes more sense to me than what the Apple tech suggested. I may still move from me.com to icloud.com to avoid any future hassles.

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davidmenges Author

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Oct 26, 2020 5:29 PM in response to Michael Black

My point is mail sent as me.com arrived as me.com until recently (within the last month for me). Now it arrives as icloud.com. This is a definite, unannounced (as far as I know) change that can cause problems, and is for me.

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