Why do they keep monkeying around with this?
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From iCloud: Using your @icloud.com email address:
Note: No matter which address you choose to send email from, you will continue to receive all email sent to your @me.com, @mac.com, or @icloud.com email addresses directly in your iCloud inbox.
But still: why? For example, some people have spam blockers that require you register your address with them. I've written to them, and had to go through the whole rigoramole, then later write to them and find that Mail has written to them under .me instead of .mac. And you have to go through the whole thing again. Or people don't know if you're .mac or .me so they send emails to you at both addresses, "just in case", so you get two of everything, and you have to explain. It feels like someone got hired to some high position at Apple, and had to create .me to justify his existence, then some other clown did the same thing with iCloud. Why not do all these things while letting users just keep their one address? It has made contacts in my address book nuts, because I enter names not realizing that they are being stored under different accounts, when I only ever wanted one ONE account. It's just pointless. Well, at least now it's free, because that's what it's worth.
It's YOUR CHOICE which email address you want to use. You CAN keep your one address if you want. You only have ONE ACCOUNT. The different addresses are all the SAME account. You choose which one to use.
You don't have to change it just because Apple offers you an optional additional address. Just ignore the addresses you don't want to use, and remove them from the Sending options of your email clients.
Again, it is YOUR CHOICE.
Pretzelcuatl wrote:
... It feels like someone got hired to some high position at Apple, and had to create .me to justify his existence, then some other clown did the same thing with iCloud.
An interesting choice of words that's not too far from the truth, Pretzelcuatl:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/25/who-is-to-blame-for-mobileme/
"@.icloud" isn't awful but ".me" is a horrible, cutesy little domain name that sound like something AOL might have tried to use in 1996.
I got rid of both by editing my icloud account in Mail prefs. Now .mac is the only option that shows up, however I can still receive mail from the .icloud and .me
domain names.
this makes me insane. I was perfectly happy to live out the rest of my days with my .mac address. Then I had .me foisted on me. MobileMe. Now iCloud. Why on earth couldn't these idiots be happy with what we were already paying for?
