Custom email domains

@ezimme

There is a point, you can create email rules a bit like a junk filter rule and direct incoming mail to an appropriate folder.

If an incoming email recipient contains your domain name then move it to anther folder.

You can create folders under any email icloud account and move or copy mails between emails them.

In the emial app on iPhone click edit and then create 'new mail box' and create a new named folder.

This link shows you how to create folders in icloud mail that then show up in each device

https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/icloud/mm6b1a6730/icloud

I may have found a workaround until Apple fixes notifications for sub folders……….

1. Go into your Mail app > click edit in the top right > select Add Mailbox
2. Select all of the sub-folders in your mailbox you need to receive push notifications for and select Done
3. Go into the Settings app > select Mail > select Notifications
4. You should see an option that says " Favorite Mailboxes"
5. Open Favorite Mailboxes and configure your preferences for mail notifications.
6. After you finish you should now be able to receive notifications for those sub-folders based on the notification preferences you set in Favourite Mailboxes

I disagree. Yes, you can create a folder within the iCloud folder hierarchy, create a rule that moves the inbound emails to that folder etc. And yes it's sync'd and available across all devices. BUT, there's no new mail notification unless you scroll down through the list of email accounts and folders. I don't see this as an acceptable solution at all and to my mind severely limits the usefulness of custom email domains. I use various iCloud email aliases for various online activities (shopping, mailing lists etc) so do not want emails from the custom domain lumped in with all of that without an easy way to identify them. Unless I am missing something else in set-up that works better than this.

There is no mail notifications for junk mail either, you have to scroll to view that folder!

I have tried to set notifications and nothing works for new emails arriving in junk or custom folders.

I suppose I will have to always scroll thru my folders if only to check the junk folder.

This is how these services tend to work. I have used Google Workspaces and Office365/Exchange. All messages regardless of domain alias they come in through go to same inbox. If you want a separate inbox you need to pay for an additional user in these services.

As someone said server side rules are the best way to handle this if you need separation. This is not a business class service.

Essentially, you only have one icloud email box, a custom email is just the address to which all emails will go to the icloud email box.

You can also set up a rule to color code by email address, say green for @icloud.com and blue for @custom.com. I've used this for a while to ID emails from forwarded accounts.