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

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.

there's no way you can delete your account. Just sign yourself out and let it stay the way it is.

You could use a vacation mail message to alert anyone that your email has changed.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2627

P.S. you can also create a rule to forward all incoming mail to your new/other email address.

There is not,

You have received correct advice from Roger Wilmut1, it is up to you whether you heed it.

Countless other peope are not having any issues, perhaps you set your email account up incorrectly?

HAIKU HEAD wrote:

I assume you are an Apple® newbie as you obviously have no knowledge whatsoever of the subject you are responding to. Perhaps you work in an Apple® call centre?

Even a cursory glance across various Mac forums details the huge problems long time users of Mac Mail, such as myself, have experienced at the hands of Apple®'s incompetence over the Mobile Me > iCloud migration.

User failure is fairly common, and 5,000 plus posts (not users, posts) is infintesimal aginst the millions of users.

This is a support site, who else is likely to be here if not users with problems, like the emergency room at a hospital, most are sick, that does not mean everyone outside is also.

And the question is "HOW DO I DELETE MY APPLE E-MAIL / iCLOUD ACCOUNT?" so be helpful, address it, not your own agenda.

Do as you please, when you find out how to delete an account please let us know.

Good luck

HAIKU HEAD wrote:

Like countless other people, I have had a nightmare with my Apple e-mail account since they switched from Mobile Me to iCloud.

Why? Do you have it set up right? Have you signed out and back in through the system preferences?

HAIKU HEAD wrote:

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.

Why? Are you using an IMAP or POP account? Do you have the little check box in Mail Preferences that says store sent messages in Server? Try putting a check mark in that box.

HAIKU HEAD wrote:

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.

Why? (Go into system preferences and turn off icloud.) You can choose to use what ever email client you want... Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. You may have a @mac.com, @me.com, or even an @icloud address... (you really should only have @icloud.com and maybe @me.com but @mac.com has been transitioned a long time ago)... but how it works is you have an email address (not ending in the extentions listed above) and you have use it as your apple id. Now with that apple id (your main email) you can create a liinked email account provided by Apple ending in @icloud.com (previously @me.com).

Simply don't use it if you dont want it. However I would ensure that your signed on from the system preferences, because there are benefits of iCloud such as using iWork documents, or syncing with iOs devises.

Even a cursory glance across various Mac forums details the huge problems long time users of Mac Mail, such as myself, have experienced at the hands of Apple®'s incompetence over the Mobile Me > iCloud migration.

Judging a service or product overall by what you see here in the forums is like judging a city's health by what you see in one of its hospital's emergency rooms. It just isn't a valid judge of the overall health of the product.

There are so many user equipment/system configurations that it's difficult to say there's a major flaw in iCloud. For one, it worked right out of the box and hasn't hiccuped once. And insulting a user, one who is well respected in this community, is not going to get you any sympathy or additional help here.

You got your answer so why argue?

OT

HAIKU HEAD wrote:

I think you may be mistaken Toad. I didn't insult anyone. I thanked the venerable Roger Wilmut 1 for his helpful advice and was forced to react to a rather brusque post by another user. So I think you may be getting things muddled up.

Anyway, to dismiss the complaints of the many thousands of users who've had serious problems with the transition to Mobile Me / iCloud is odd. If a car has, for instance, steering or braking problems, which cause a small percentage of its owners / drivers to have an accident.. do you then say, well, the majority of drivers experience no problems so there is no problem. Of course not. I, like many thousands of long term Mac users, many who paid good money for the Mobile Me service, have experienced some terrible problems, data corruption, lost countless important e-mails, lack of synching between devices. This is nothing to do with how I or many of my colleagues set our computers up ... but rather that there are issues at Apple's end which Apple has refused to deal with effectively.

I am happy for you that you have experienced a glitch-free existence with you Apple products but sadly many of us cannot claim the same. Just because things are fine and dandy in your bubble doesn't mean that the complaints many Apple users have are invalid.

I'm glad you solved your problem.

I would prefer to use Outlook for Mac...have the same email going to both email accounts now. Is there no way I can "close" my mac email so it won't fill up and take up unnecessary space on my MacBook?