Andreas Yankopolus
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Q: Using my own domain with iCloud email

I've had my own domain and email address for over a decade, and it's lasted me through a number of providers. Is there any reasonable way to use it with iCloud? It seems like iCloud is tied to a new .me email address, and it's not like I'm going to change my everyday email address to use it.

 

—Andreas

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 11:28 AM

by JamesR202,Solvedanswer
JamesR202 JamesR202
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A:

Hi,

 

I have found away that I think may help you.

 

Background as to why I use it. I have a @me.com address and Gmail but my contacts only know my Gmail account but I wanted to use cloud email so it would sync properly across all my devices, MBP, iPad and iPhone and also have the push email that the previous Mobile Me had and iCloud has now

 

So what I have done on my MBP is this. I use Mail.

 

You need to go into system preferences and select iCloud...in here turn off Mail and Notes.

 

Now open Mail and select preferences. Then select accounts. Delete all accounts there.

Now set up a new account by pressing the + button. After that enter the details as if you were setting up to use your Me.com account and press CREATE.

 

You now go to a page where you can edit all your mail settings manually. In the first section of the page you have:

 

Account Type - This should say -  iCloud IMAP

Description - This can be described by you to be anything

Email Address - This is the email address you want people recieving the email to see

Full Name - As it says put your name

 

Incoming Mail Server - If you want the mails to come from iCloud then use: p99-imap.mail.me.com

User Name: The user name of the icloud

Password: the password of icloud

 

**Note** In this section you are putting in where you want the mails to come from. In this case I wanted the mails to come from iCloud so I forwarded all my mails from my Gmail account to my @me.com address, and then got iCloud to deliver them.

 

Outgoing Mail Server: Now this is the interesting part. I have changed this to the GMAIL server on my Gmail account. I have done this as I want my mails saved also at my Gmail account so by routing them through Gmail this happens as well as recording the sent mails at iCloud.

 

**********

 

On iPhone and iPad you just add iCloud and then turn off mail again. Now you set up a mail account using the other option.

1. IMAP Account Information - In here i put the information that i want my contacts to see

2. Incoming Mail Server - I put the iCloud information

3. Outgoing Mail Server - I put the Gmail server

 

*******

So in short now, i get complete syncing of my mails across my 3 iDevices and have the extra back up of iCloud, but my clients do not see my @me.com (iCloud) email address, they see my Gmail address that I have been using for many years so there is no confusion for them.

 

I really hope you get all of that, this is the first time I have helped on here so am very much a newbie but it seems to be working for me.

 

James

 

MBP - 2009

iPhone 4 - 2010

iPad 2 - 2011

Posted on Oct 19, 2011 6:52 AM

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 29, 2013 11:13 AM in response to checkraising
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    Mar 29, 2013 11:13 AM in response to checkraising

    checkraising wrote

     

    Again,

     

    Need domain to be used for iCloud account for full functionality just like if I were to use Exchange.

    Again: it's not possible, but if you want to expend your time and energy trying to find a workaround we shall all applaud your enthusiasm.

  • by checkraising,

    checkraising checkraising Mar 29, 2013 11:21 AM in response to checkraising
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    Mar 29, 2013 11:21 AM in response to checkraising

    Roger,

     

    When I find the solution, will you retract your negativity and state that you were wrong?  Give me a formal apology that you gave bad advice?  What will I do?  Find the solution.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 29, 2013 11:40 AM in response to checkraising
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    Mar 29, 2013 11:40 AM in response to checkraising

    If you prove me wrong and provide evidence to that effect in the form of a testable and working process I will certainly admit I am wrong.

     

    Let's take one step at a time. Please let us know when you have been able to send an email from the iCloud website with a non-Apple email address as the 'From' address, using a method that other people can replicate,

  • by RAM,

    RAM RAM Mar 29, 2013 6:55 PM in response to checkraising
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    Mar 29, 2013 6:55 PM in response to checkraising

    checkraising: I too usually find workarounds for mostly everything I want, but I'm afraid Roger is right on this one. There's absolutely no way you can send an email out of the iCloud website (the WEBSITE) from an address other than the one from Apple (i.e. @icloud.com, @me.com or @mac.com).

     

    Apple used to allow personal domain set up with MobileMe, but that got removed with iCloud. Of course, if you don't mind skiping the use of iCloud's web portal, you can easily set this up from your Mac (i.e. the Mail app) and even kind of workaround for calendars, etc. But for the web, no way! Sorry.

     

    AND...  If you ever find a workaround for this, share it here and I'll happily follow Roger in retracting my words... and even a little bit of praising... =)

     

    Hopefully Apple will allow external aliases at some point, but I wouldn;t put my money on this. I'm actually even considering migrating to Gmail completely, but I like some iCloud features a lot more and the only thing missing (for me) is being able to send emails from Icloud.com via my personal domain!

     

    *sigh*

  • by checkraising,

    checkraising checkraising Mar 29, 2013 7:20 PM in response to RAM
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    Mar 29, 2013 7:20 PM in response to RAM

    I want to talk with you by phone if possible.  863.669.8077

     

    It sounds like you have a solution for me on Mac etc. for now.

     

    Can we do it?

     

    very respectfully,

     

    jay

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 30, 2013 12:40 AM in response to checkraising
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    Mar 30, 2013 12:40 AM in response to checkraising

    As I already said, you can do this in the Mail application - the method was explained in the quoted answer to the first post in this forum (it's simply setting Mail to use another SMTP server than iCloud's).

  • by Tom Colandrea,

    Tom Colandrea Tom Colandrea May 7, 2013 3:28 PM in response to FLHRCI02
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    May 7, 2013 3:28 PM in response to FLHRCI02

    As for anybody using GoDaddy for their forwarding, don't make the same mistake I did -- you can't forward an existing address, you can only carbon copy it. Since I didn't want to carbon copy (and leave a copy on the GoDaddy server), I then had to delete my existing address, and then set that same address up as a forward, so that it only exists in name only to GoDaddy (not as an actual email account), which then forwards any mail addressed to that address. So far, so good, but the problem occurs when you go to set up the SMTP server for outgoing mail. Since that address isn't an actual email account with GoDaddy any more, it's not valid for the SMTP server. I found this out only by talking to tech support there; they told me I had to use an actual email account and carbon copy it rather than forward. As to why you cant just forward using an existing account, I have no idea. Anyway, after I re-created my email address as an actual account and used the carbon copy option, everything worked fine.

  • by riteshritesh,

    riteshritesh riteshritesh Jan 2, 2014 3:24 AM in response to RAM
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    Jan 2, 2014 3:24 AM in response to RAM

    Any update on this "icloud not using external smtp server" issue.

     

    Till that time I am forwarding all my google apps ( free) mails to outllook.com ID, added my google apps mail id as a primary alias in outlook.com email and spoofing all outgoing mails from outlook email id to appear as if they are going out from google apps ID.

    Auto forwarded all mails from google apps ID to outlook.com id, but it does require frequent monitoring to check if any mails have been skipped by the strict MS filter or sent to junk. One needs to keep on adding certain domains to the safe sender list in outlook.

  • by snozdop,

    snozdop snozdop Jan 2, 2014 3:34 AM in response to riteshritesh
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    Jan 2, 2014 3:34 AM in response to riteshritesh

    Any update on this "icloud not using external smtp server" issue.

     

    Nope. Nothing has changed.

  • by Ergolad,

    Ergolad Ergolad Feb 20, 2014 3:26 PM in response to Andreas Yankopolus
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    Feb 20, 2014 3:26 PM in response to Andreas Yankopolus

    Using this same setup on iOS 7.0.4 successfully. Still works. May jump to Mavericks on my MacBook soon. Still running Lion. Hopefully the reports are correct and it will continue to function without issue.

  • by riteshritesh,

    riteshritesh riteshritesh Mar 11, 2014 12:56 AM in response to snozdop
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    Mar 11, 2014 12:56 AM in response to snozdop

    With the ios 7.1 update, secondary smtp works as it should. Give it a try and write back with your findings.

  • by Ergolad,

    Ergolad Ergolad Mar 26, 2014 2:41 PM in response to Ergolad
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    Mar 26, 2014 2:41 PM in response to Ergolad

    Jumped to Mavericks and can report all is well. Using 3 iCloud accounts with 2 Goddaddy domains (Business Email plan with copy/autopurge) and 1 forwarded Hotmail account. Works great between my jailbroken iPhone 4S running iOS 7.0.6 and my MacBook Pro. About to add an iPad to the mix too. Will report back on that when it's set up.

     

    Had some strangeness migrating accounts during the upgrade. Ended up with a rogue iCloud account, which I deleted that broke some things. Setup the account up again, which was essentially the same, though I didn't have to start completely fresh. And for whatever reason, my main iCloud account which is used for syncing all my contacts and other settings now also functions with Mail enabled, rather than needing a seperate iCloud account dedicated just for mail for that username. Everything tests OK, so I'm leaving it be. Headers are fine and emails are routed to destination (both recipents and account folders) properly.

     

    My icloud accounts associated with my domains are named, "mydomain@icloud.com" and the Hotmail one is called "XXXX.hotmail@icloud.com," where XXXX is my Hotmail account user name/email. The one minor annoyance is that when generating new mail in mail.app on Mavericks, the FROM drop down list shows 3 addresses for each account now (XXXX@mydomain.com, XXXX@me.com & XXXX@icloud.com). Mai.app is set to default to the proper outgoing email address for each account, so it's not really a problem.

  • by Mik B,

    Mik B Mik B Mar 31, 2014 4:12 PM in response to JamesR202
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    Mar 31, 2014 4:12 PM in response to JamesR202

    Have anyone done a similar setup with their outlook.com registered personal domain email account on iCloud as have been suggested with ditto on Gmail?

  • by mikefxd,

    mikefxd mikefxd Mar 31, 2014 5:13 PM in response to Andreas Yankopolus
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    Mar 31, 2014 5:13 PM in response to Andreas Yankopolus

    For all the trouble and configuring why not just go with Exchange online?  If your running a business and email is important and you need a professional presents then spend the $5/mo.  I have tried so many ways to be 100% Apple but as a person who supports computers, my time is worth money and I dont want to waste it on my own issues.  All Apple device are Exchange ready so why reinvent the wheel...IMO

  • by riteshritesh,

    riteshritesh riteshritesh Apr 1, 2014 5:11 AM in response to Mik B
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    Apr 1, 2014 5:11 AM in response to Mik B

    Outlook.com hosted domains have free exchange support. Set up your email using the exchange or outlook links on your ios device while adding new mail.

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