How to make iCloud alias behave like a default email

dbehn has the right idea, but those server settings didn't work for me. The following settings did work for me though:

Address: The iCloud alias you want to use as your default From address - i.e. alias@me.com

Incoming Server: p04-imap.mail.me.com

User Name: Your primary iCloud login, leaving off the me.com at the end

Outgoing Server: imap.mail.me.com

No username or login entered for outgoing server

I disabled Mail in iCloud settings, and am now using this separate account, which means I'm able to use my iCloud alias as my default From address.

Hopefully Apple will release a less hacky solution for this at some point.

Correction: You actually do need to enter your iCloud login and password for the outgoing server. Sorry about that.

Well, I have this set up perfectly on my iPhone with my iCloud alias. But on my wife's phone, it keeps failing when I try entering her account info. Very odd.

I've disabled mail in her iCloud settings. Then added a new account using her preferred alias as the address. In the incoming mail server field I've used:

p02-imap.mail.me.com

p04-imap.mail.me.com

p99-imap.mail.me.com

These are the known-good addresses I've seen. I've also tried other random pxx numbers between 04 and 99 which don't work either.

For the user name and password, I entered her actual accountname@me.com and proper (confirmed) password.

As I said, this exact setup works perfectly on my iPhone. This setup also works on her Mac in Mail app.

So what gives?

Thanks!

I tried both of these solutions here to add @me account as "Other" but it was a no go... Found this on the lovely interwebz and thought i'd share it with the rest of you:

Set up a new mail account as "Other" in iPhone. These settings also work for third party softwares:

• IMAP server: imap.mail.me.com (try p99-imap.mail.me.com if you run into bumps)
• Port: 993
• Require TLS/SSL: Yes
• User name: your iCloud Mail email address

  Do include "@me.com"; if your iCloud Mail address is "me@me.com", for instance, use "me@me.com" as your user name.

• Password: your iCloud password
• SMTP server: smtp.mail.me.com
• Port: 587
• Require TLS/SSL: Yes
• User name: your iCloud Mail email address
• Password: your iCloud password

BW: Teemu

THANK YOU Teknojeewes! My alias email was working perfectly on my iPhone until a week ago and suddenly stopped when I finally upgraded my iOS. It's taken me hours of searches to find the fix, and this is it!

Now if someone could tell me how to set up more than one iCloud email alias on my phone without getting duplicates all would be perfect... doesn't Apple understand that many of us set up our iCloud accounts with a "parent" email we never intended to use and instead use aliases so we can change our email addresses easily if we start getting spammed? Seems like a no-brainer to me?

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Message was edited by: ||| tomas jay sorry, wrong place for my post.

@izzy35:

izzy35 wrote:

I have a question. [...] but if I shut off "mail" in order to stop this from happening, is there a way to continue to get mail from the other aliases??

With the described settings, you will not only receive mails for this alias, but mails for all aliases and the main me.com address. But you will always write emails using the defined alias.

Hope this helps ...

@izzy35:

izzy35 wrote:

[...] now I'm getting this message when using the alias that I set up the account for: "A copy has been placed in your Outbox. The sender address was rejected by the server"

I turned off "mail" in the main iCloud account so that I don't keep getting duplicates to the phone. Any idea how to resolve this??

You'll have to enter credentials for the outgoing server (smtp) as well - although it's saying "optional" there.

@EveryNameIsTaken and @John French 1:

EveryNameIsTaken wrote:

Did anyone have trouble with getting a message that the Username or Password for "mail.me.com" is incorrect? I put in my primary email and password. The one that I login to the regular site every day, but it will not go through. Can't figure out what I'm doing different. I'm really getting angry.

I was in despair, because I had the same issue, but then I found that there are different settings possible, e.g. for use with older versions of OSX or with iOS4, namely to use the me.com email address (without the @me.com) as user name.

Look here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5330

This works for me.

No need to find a p01 - p99 server name ...

@Matt Wright, @aaanorton, and @Teknojeewes:

Matt Wright wrote:

dbehn has the right idea, but those server settings didn't work for me. The following settings did work for me though:

Address: The iCloud alias you want to use as your default From address - i.e. alias@me.com

Incoming Server: p04-imap.mail.me.com

User Name: Your primary iCloud login, leaving off the me.com at the end

Outgoing Server: imap.mail.me.com

No username or login entered for outgoing server

I disabled Mail in iCloud settings, and am now using this separate account, which means I'm able to use my iCloud alias as my default From address.

Hopefully Apple will release a less hacky solution for this at some point.

Found this article about configuring imap for older versions of OS X and iOS 4. Works perfectly with my iPhone, iOS 5. No need to find a dedicated server name. Just replace your user name with your icloud email (without the @me.com). Official Apple statement here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5330.

Works for me, should work for you, too.

Agreed, this is a much simpler way to set this up. I just tried and it works great for me.

Fine that it was helpful for you.

It's good to know that it is replicable, so it seems to be a stable solution.

It's still good to have the other solutions in mind - just in case Apple changes anything.

E.g. stops supporting the described solution.

I think you just go to Setting, and you select "Mail, cntacts, Calendar"

You get to a page that starts with the accounts list.

You have ot scroll down, until you find "Default account". Just tap there to select the desired one.

(after the account list, you find "Mail" wiht a list of about 10 options. Default account is at the end after the Signature - after that the "Contact" options start)