Glenn Leblanc wrote:
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do. Do you want the .mac address forwarded to gmail and not the .me address?
If you use iCloud in Mail, all iCloud mail will include the main address and all aliases. They show in the same account, but with the different addresses.
If you use the main forwarding address in the general preferences of Mail at the iCloud site, then all messages to all iCloud addresses will forward to gmail.
If you only want to forward one of the addresses, go to the rules tab and create a rule to forward the .mac address to gmail.
You said: I am using gmail on my iphone/ipad so I do not need to sync my mail.
Do you not want the .mac or .me account on your phone and iPad?
You said: What I am trying to achieve here is just to have a mac.com account. My concern is I do not want to get it confused with the me.com address. Given that is it possible to have a mac.com email account that will work?
Where are you using the .me account and what for? How do you want to separate them so you don't get confused? If you only want a .mac account, what happened to gmail?
I'm sorry. It appears there is a minor translation barrier. I am not understanding what you need to accomplish and I'm getting confused.
Maybe you could explain as simple as possible all what you want to show in Mail on the computer, iPhone, and iPad and what you want to sync together.
Glenn I am sorry for the confusion. The joys of email.
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do. Do you want the .mac address forwarded to gmail and not the .me address?
Yes I want to forward the .mac address to my gmail account The reason I have the .me address is because Apple forced this on me when I signed up for the icloud when it first came out. They would not let me use another account. I would have prefered the .mac account but as I said I had no choice.
You said: I am using gmail on my iphone/ipad so I do not need to sync my mail.
Do you not want the .mac or .me account on your phone and iPad?
I do not want either account on my iPhone or iPad for email. I use my gmail account for my email. I have gmail defined as an exchange account on the iPhone/iPad in order to push email to my devices. I just want to have a .mac email address that people can send emails to. My intention is to forward the .mac emails to my gmail.
So I guess my problem boils down to how I can have the mac.com address (which is defined on Apple) forward any emails to my gmail account.
I hope I am making this clearer for you to understand. Maybe I am trying to do something that is not possible? Maybe I am making this more complicated than it really i?. The concept is simple. Apple just makes it difficult to do it.
I look forward to hearing back from you.