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HOW DO I DELETE MY APPLE E-MAIL / iCLOUD ACCOUNT?

Like countless other people, I have had a nightmare with my Apple e-mail account since they switched from Mobile Me to iCloud. An absolute disaster. Sent messages are not saved, servers down much of the timem my iPhone and Mac laptop never sync correctly. An outrageous joke on Apple's part.

Anyway, I am over it and I have decided I wish to switch to a more reliable e-mail provider but ... I want to ensure that the Mac / Me / iCloud address is deleted so that messages are returned to senders undelievered as I will no longer be checking these accounts.

Yet I cannot find how / where I can delete the account?

Can someone help?

Thanks

Haiku

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), YES and MAYBE

Posted on Jan 7, 2013 9:02 AM

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Roger Wilmut1

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Posted on Jan 7, 2013 9:53 AM

It's not possible to delete the account. If you do nothing then at first senders will get no response, but later when the account fills up they will get an 'account over limit' message.

You best bet is to set up a 'vacation message' (Preferences>General at icloud.com) announcing that the address is closed and asking them to post to a new address.

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Feb 16, 2013 6:34 AM in response to barfinkl1

If you sign out of iCloud on your Mac then it won't see any future emails to iCloud. Once you've stopped using the account any messages to it will pile up there until the account storage is full, and then they will be bounced with an 'account over limit' message. (This won't be visible on or affect your Mac once you've signed out.) You could set up a Rule to move them to the Trash, which will be automatically emptied periodically; and/or set up a 'vacation message' informing people that the address is no longer in use.

Csound1

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Feb 16, 2013 7:36 AM in response to barfinkl1

barfinkl1 wrote:

I would prefer to use Outlook for Mac...have the same email going to both email accounts now.

If you are collecting iCloud email via Outlook as well as mail then all you need to do is to disable the account in Mail, no other changes are required.

HOW DO I DELETE MY APPLE E-MAIL / iCLOUD ACCOUNT?