Using my own domain with iCloud email

Hey All:

This is a very important issue, and I really appreciate so many folks working on this..

My question is:

A lot of you guys are using Gmail, or another service like that. As a pro consutlant, that is a bit frowned on in my world so we use GoDaddy as our hosting and email service providor. There are a lot of references to the @me.com - is that just legacy email address from mobile me? Do I need a @me.com or can I not worry about the @me.com and simply use my current work email .com address?

Thanks all.

Brek

iCloud does not affect or interact with your existing email accounts in any way. You can use iCloud's facilities as you choose, including email or not, and still use your other email accounts exactly as before.

THIS IS GREAT!!!

Thanks James for the awesome tip!!

I've been trying to do this for a while and got to a similar workaround, but this is much more simple and it works perfectly! I was missing the IMAP servers from iCloud. Now it all works!

Kudos on figuring it out!

hi guys,

i have been searching for a solution quite for a while.

it was pretty easy with mobile me, but icloud did not support the same solution i used.

good news, it is very easy so use your own email address with an icloud account.

i just tested it and it works fine.

the instructions can be found here:

http://chrisbowler.com/journal/configuring-your-mail-setup-to-use-icloud-email-w ith-different-sending-addr

this helped me a lot and i believe this is way easier then all the other workarouds.

cheers.

oli

I might be missing something, but how is this different from James' solution?

Other than adding the alises at the end, it's the same workaround, no?

1) Turn off mail acount in iCloud.

2) Set up a new mail account using iCloud IMAP server and your own SMTP server.

Piece of cake.

JamesR202

Your answer still work even now! Tell you it is the one thing I hated about my local provider is no push email. However, using your setup and having my email forwarded from my local provider works. I just had to setup their smtp for outgoing and because it verifies my email account as being active on their system it allows me to send. I now have this setup on all my Mac computers, iPhone and iPad.

Thanks for the great info!

Brek,

The answer is yes you can use these instructions with GoDaddy email. I have been trying ever since iCloud came out to figure out how to do this and this thread was the trick. I have a buiness URL I bought at GoDaddy and GoDaddy hosts my website too. I setup email Forwarding as a catchall account so that every email sent to any name at all @mysite.com is forwarded to my me@me.com iCloud account. That way I get the magic of iCloud push email to my iMac, iPhone, and iPad and all 3 stay in sync. Furthermore, I can store all email correspondence related to my site in the iCloud so it's backed up on all my devices and in the cloud. So, contact@mysite.com, president@mysite.com, info@mysite.com, madeupname@mysite.com will all route to my me@me.com iCloud email using push.

Tricky part is setting up GoDaddy mail forwarding - not a friendly site. Make sure you refresh the page until the status for your forwarded catchall email shows "active", then proceed to the Mac steps next. After you get the Mac working with a few test mails, then setup the iPhone, and iPad last.

Now no matter where I am or what I'm doing if i have one of my devices nearby I can get email from my website contact page, etc. and then respond to it with the owner@mysite.com address using the drop down box in Mail on my iDevice.

Hey All:

This is a very important issue, and I really appreciate so many folks working on this..

My question is:

A lot of you guys are using Gmail, or another service like that. As a pro consutlant, that is a bit frowned on in my world so we use GoDaddy as our hosting and email service providor. There are a lot of references to the @me.com - is that just legacy email address from mobile me? Do I need a @me.com or can I not worry about the @me.com and simply use my current work email .com address?

Thanks all.

Brek

Hi James,

Thank you very much for your solution - I am however having a few issues that I hope you can help me with.

I have followed everything you say - but rather than using the gmail server for Outgoing Mail server I am trying to use the server provided by my domain email account but it isn't working!!

Everytime I try to send an email, it says it cannot recognise the server - but I am pretty sure all the info entered is correct. I am getting really frustrated!!

Is there anything you can suggest?

Regards

Tim

Just want to report this solution still works in iOS 5.1.1. Finally upgraded from 5.0.1 and all is well. Hopefully there will be joy with iOS 6.

I have an issue that is related to this... I have set it up all fine, but when I reply to an email that is sent to my @mydomain.com addy (that is fwd to my @iCloud.com addy), it won't let me reply back thru iCloud's servers, which is not a problem... As I can reply thru my @mydomain.com addy, but now I have two copies of the reply email on the Sent Servers. Duplicates. One on the iCloud server and one on the mydomain.com server.

anyone else have this issue? or know a fix?

Don't send from iCloud, only send from GoDaddy then you will not get duplicates

James

It has been a year since you offered your solution. Have you made any changes? Is your configuration still working?

Will this work with other IMAP accounts instead of Gmail?

Thanks to you or anyone else who knows.

I use MB Air, iPad 3, iPhone 5

I don't send from iCloud.... I use the @mydomain.com as my outgoing Server.

I have my @mydomain.com set up to route all mail to my iCloud account, thus pushed to all my devices and computer. It is when I reply to this email on my computer that it happens. I hit 'reply' and change the outgoing server to @mydomain.com and send... but a duplicate is still stored on my iCloud outgoing, as well as on my @mydomain.com outgoing.

Maybe I've configured something wrong... just don;t know.

Hey all,

I'm still missing the possibility to choose between the 2 outgoing servers: @me.com and @mydomain.com without having to create 2 different accounts.

XabiB wrote:

I'm still missing the possibility to choose between the 2 outgoing servers: @me.com and @mydomain.com without having to create 2 different accounts.

Of course you have to set them up in Mail as separate accounts - they are separate accounts. Once done you can select either from the drop down menu in the header of the new message pane. Of course from the iCloud website you can only send using the iCloud server, and thus only with the iCloud address.