turn off icloud.com send from mail

I have a @me.com email, with several aliases.

Apple (graciously) provided me with an @icloud.com email, for all of them!


I do not use, nor want to use, @icloud.com, but thank you.


I can turn off sending from @icloud.com addresses from the icloud.com website

but not from Mail (desktop).


I now have a send from list a mile long whenever I compose an email.


This is infuriating.


How do I fix this?

OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Dec 18, 2012 8:42 AM

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Dec 18, 2012 12:59 PM in response to LambdaEnt

HI,


I have been given an @iCloud.com ID as well as the @me.com one for my iCloud Account.


However it does not appear in Mail (I never put it there)

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Nor does it appear in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars which is another place you can turn On Accounts for Messages, Mail, Notes an Calendars.


As you can see in my Pic I have some Accounts Turned Off (the Enable this Account option will be unticked)



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8:59 PM Tuesday; December 18, 2012

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 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Dec 18, 2012 5:12 PM in response to LambdaEnt

When you set the option on the website, it's supposed to also bleed down to your mail.app. I just tested, and it worked on my system, leaving only my @me.com address usable in the 'from' field. One thing I did notice, I had to actually log out of icloud.com before it took affect on my computer (or it just kicked in and synced during that time - this is more likely).

Dec 19, 2012 11:50 AM in response to LambdaEnt

HI,


I understood that you wanted to use the @me.com Apple ID.


What I was saying was that Apple sent me and Email about the @icloud.com name and it was not added automatically to the Mail app or the Mail, Contacts adn Calendars part of System Preferences.


Separately I have checked out that I can use the @iCloud.com name as a Valid AIM name (Like @mac.com and @me.com ones) and I can.


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AS you can see this did add it to Mail, Contacts and Calendars but only as a Messages app ID.


I have not linked them (the original ID I used to create the iCloud ID or the @me.com name I got at the time).

All allow me access to the iCloud web page, the iTunes Store and to be able to post here.


I also showed that I had "registered" for both the POP server and IMAP server fro my Google ID and had one turned Off in the Mail App.


Having said that if I visit the iCloud > Mail web site and bring up the Preferences > Accounts it only lists the @me.com and @iCloud.com names (And not the creating Apple ID ).

The @icloud one does seem to have become the "Send From Address if I were composing Mail here.


In testing from my Google Account to my @me.com name it does not get moved to @iCloud.com and neither does any return email. (Despite the setting at iCloud it keeps to the Mail settings).






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7:50 PM Wednesday; December 19, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"


 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Dec 20, 2012 11:35 AM in response to Eric Root

HI Eric,


It seems it can be turned Off in the Composing section of the On Line Settings rather that actually deleted.


I must admit to never looking at this Apple Doc


Nothing I see in the Doc hard links the @me.com and @icloud IDs together.



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7:35 PM Thursday; December 20, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"


 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Dec 20, 2012 1:40 PM in response to Eric Root

You're welcome.



Delete in the Mail App (or turn Off)

Turn Off only in thre iCloud Settings for the Mail said


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9:38 PM Thursday; December 20, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"


 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously


Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK)

Dec 20, 2012 1:40 PM in response to LambdaEnt

LambdaEnt wrote:


No, you both misunderstand the problem. I still want to use my @me.com address.

Apple added the same addresses @icloud.com


If I turn off the iCloud account I lose both.


On the icloud.com website I can select which email addresses are to be:

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I don't have that option in Mail (desktop):

Do it from the website then, Mail uses the same server.

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