How do I send iCloud email from alternative smtp server? The setting is 'greyed out' on my iPhone so I cannot tell iCloud to use another server.
The reason is so I can have my outgoing email appear from my own domain email address rather than my me.com address. Mobileme would allow this - and Mail on the Mac does allow it, but the iPhone under iOS 5 seems not to allow it....
Any ideas?
I found a work around that works. Got to Settings...Icloud....account......advanced....outgoing mail server.....
Add an "other" server.
Host Name p01-smtp.mail.me.com
Put in your me.com email address as username and your Apple ID password
SSL is on
Authentication is password
Server port 587
This worked for me.....I will use this until the bug is fixed. (you may need to use p02, p03 etc) Don't make this server your primary. Leave it in "on" status in the other category.
Good luck
Hi,
I dont think you quite understood the original problem.... i dont want to add a new iCloud server.
I want to tell my iCloud email to send using a different server altogether. I want to tell I cloud to use my Gmail account as the outgoing mail server. However the option to tell iCloud to use a different SMTP server is greyed out and cannot be toggled off. MobileMe used to let you do this.
Hey Tim
I want to do the same but for some strange reason Apple don't want us doing this.
Gmail is really great for hosting your domain and having multiple email addresses using your own domain but Ive never liked Gmails web app for email. I was hoping iCloud would be a bit more sophisticated and allow use of your own domains etc but when it comes to email, iCloud is uninspiring at best, a backward step even from Mobileme which Steve Jobs himself described as "not our finest hour".
Oh well, will just have to stick with Gmail.
Hi Tim
I have the same issue as i have my own email address and only want to use.
There are two ways around this annoying problem. The first is to set up your own domain email account alongside your iCloud one, and when you go to send each email tap on From and you get a choice of emails addresses to reply from... ie your own domain or the iCloud one. This is tedious though.
The other is to set up your iCloud email as normal, then create a new one altogether. Choose 'Other' when creating this new account. Then put for the incoming server mail.me.com, along with your user name and password. For the outgoing server put the server you want to use - ie your own domain one. This is therefore a hybrid account and does work.
Now switch off the email for iCloud (leaving on Calendar, Address Book etc). Switch on the email for your hybrid account (which of course is iCloud incoming as well).
Providing you have directed your own domain email address to your me.com one, you will find the iPhone should behave itself and you can use the folders etc and these will synch with your Mac ok.
Hope this work for you - let us know.
Simon
Thats basically how I have it set up at the moment, however the me.com server according to Apple Support will stop working when MobileMe finally goes offline next year, at which point only the iCloud server will work. Cant get that to Push messages properly if I set it up manually.
I have spent about 4-6 hours working directly with folks from Tim Cooke's office, various support levels, and through them their engineers.
As much as I tried to convince them their logic is flawed, the engineers for iCloud come back and say this is expected behavior because somehow it helps secure iCloud from being a spam source. The fine and helpful gentleman from Cooke's office now understands how it is a MobileMail.app client issue, having nothing to do with iCloud servers (because we are in fact trying to bypass their servers) still totes the "it's expected behavior" line from the server engineers.
I have implored him to follow up with the iOS MobileMail app programmers and not the iCloud programmers. I am hopeful he will. Until then you have to choose between having iCloud push and losing your online identity, or losing push email and keeping your preferred address.
Fun to try: turn off all smtp servers. Send email. Gets stuck in outbox. Turn on your preferred smtp server. That one email will use your preferred alternate address, but subsequent ones revert back to the old .me.com smtp servers. Personally I believe this points to a client programming error more than reinstating a preferred behavior. Aggravating!
I spend $500 on a new phone. Google takes away my exchange client ability and apple makes me choose push email vs outgoing email address.
Hi KitBear
I am still using the hybrid method I set out above and it still works with iCloud.
Create a new 'Other' email account on your iPhone. Enter your own domain email address for the ougoing server.
Set incoming server to p02-impa.mail.me.com [or iCloud version] plus your User Name and Password. Switch on the account.
Switch off Mail in iCloud (leave Calendar etc on). Then if you forward your emails from your own domain to your iCloud account they will come in here, and go out on your domain. The key is NOT to use iCloud when Adding Account.
Let me know if this works for you.
Simon
Simon,
Thanks for the note. The problem is I can't get the push option to stay working. For a while the generic IMAP seemed to push emails okay, and then stops. It still may end up being the best option tho. Sigh...
Any solution?
Dpt ept of dumb questions
do you add your full email address including the @icloud.com or just your email name by Itself?
my thanks
Send iCloud email from alternative smtp server?
