Main @mac.com email address not working

Just to add fuel here. I had an @mac and an @me address, now I have an @icloud, they all function, none are listed as aliases and my @mac is still the default.

No need to apologize for anything. It's just conversation.

For your husband's account, that's pretty much how mine is. The only difference is I had an alias to the .me account before and it also picked up an iCloud alias.

If you make any changes to your's, do it at the iCloud.com website where it will be easier to see what you have. iCloud doesn't have sub accounts like ATT where you can have seperate login and passwords and aliases to those accounts. iCloud is really one main account that can have 3 aliases, one login, and all in the same inbox. I really never got the fact that they would show more than one address as the main account because they all use the same login just as the aliases do. I would prefer if they would let you choose the one for the main and the rest as aliases where I could delete the ones I didn't want. I just soon see them get rid of the other domain names and just use one.

As I said, if you can create another seperate Apple ID with a seperate login, then you can have a second actual account if you need one.

Anyway, glad to see you are making progress.

I never had a .mac, but now have the iCloud added to the main. So, the main iCloud for me shows the 2 addresses which aren't aliases.

But how do you know which is the default address. Nothing in settings shows one as the main or secondary.

Just thinking about it Cs

You can go to the Apple ID website and make one or the other your main email account if that's what you are referring to.

On the iCloud site under Preferences>Composing the default I had set was the @mac address, it was unaffected by the addition of the @icloud address.

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Just noticed (duhh) that on the same page you can disable send for all but one of the @somethings.

At the Website:

True, you can set a default sending address in the Composing tab. And you can deselect any you wish to not send from in that same tab. But you will still recieve mail from all accounts.

In the Accounts tab, you can't disable a main account listed under the iCloud icon. But the alias accounts in the list can be disabled or deleted in the list. It will disable ordelete both the .me & .icloud addresses for that alias.

Here is one way to test an address if you are unsure of what is being treated as an alias. You can't log into your apple account (such as the iCloud website) with an alias, but you can use any considered as a main account address like .me or .icloud.

So, if you have 4 address listed under the icloud icon in the accounts list (.mac & .me + icloud for each), then you should be able to log into the account with any of those addresses.

For me this not an issue, I use one @mac address, it is the only address I use and will stay that way. I have no aliases, no login issues and no confusion regarding iCloud and its options.

Maybe this thread can be of any help - at least it might explain the background.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3411791?answerId=20621341022#20621341022

If I forget my @mac.com password (actually, I don't think I ever had one, but iCloud wants one) and I have no idea how to get it. If I forget my Apple ID password, they send the request directly to my email and no problem. Problem is, I have no idea how to find an @mac.com password.

iforgot.apple.com

I've done this. I can reset for my Apple ID, that uses an aol.com email address to send the request to.

HOWEVER, THIS WHOLE iCLOUD ******** HAS AN @mac.com ADDRESS AND I CAN'T SIGN IN.

How do I convert the iCloud to my @aol.com OR how to I find out how to get the @mac.com password associated with iCloud.

This was so much easier before.

An @mac address is an iCloud ID (unless you never migrated it when MobileMe ended), have you tried using that address at iForgot?

OK, help me out here. When I go to iForgot, type in my Apple ID with the @mac.com suffix, and then have it send to my emails, nothing happens.

I never find the emails. There is no way to know what the email address WAS if and when I setup my Apple ID. That was a hundred years ago.

By-the-way, my Apple ID is an @aol.com email address. TO the best of my knowledge, I've never used @mac.com for anything.

How can I help? You set the account up, forgot the password (and also it seems) forgot what your alternate email is, try to remember, I don't have that information, you do (or did).