Can I use iCloud Mail for business?

It looks as if what you should do is first to set up your domain email in Mail. Then set up the iCloud mail account in the usual way, and having done this go to Mail Preferences>Accounts (not Mail>Accounts) and select the iCloud account. Set the SMTP server using the drop-down menu to your domain and check 'Use only this server'.

(This is Mail on Mavericks, I don't know if Yosemite is the same.)

Hey Abraham, good luck using iCloud with your own personal domain. It can be done, but can be tricky. Get comfortable, it's worth reading that thread all the way through as things have evolved a bit since 2011.

amg1957 wrote:

Thanks Roger. Just to make sure I understand; You are saying set up both accounts (iCloud and my own domain) in the Apple Mail client (or whatever client I am using) and then of course I can change it on each email I send out. Is that what you are saying?

What you can do is to set up iCloud mail manually using the setting here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202304

BUT instead of the settings given there for SMTP, set the SMTP server to the one for your own domain. Then the account will receive from iClou dbut automatically send via your domain. Of course this way you won't get a record of sent mail in the iCloud account itself.

There has been no indication that Apple are considering changing the present restriction.

Well put Roger.

amg1957, what Roger and I are saying is the same thing, though Roger much more concisely. As I mentioned, I haven't had to set this up in a while, but you are welcome to read the lengthy thread where this procedure is outlined in detail. It has evolved over time, so I recommend reading it through completely. Essentially though, the basic premise hasn't changed since it was first introduced.

Here is the complete thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3373919

Here is a particular post that might be relevant:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3373919?answerId=18026773022#18026773022

Roger also provided a link that offers the details to manually set up iCloud server settings (which have appeared to simplify a bit since I posted my instructions. Though my settings still work on all my devices):

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202304

Outgoing servers are always SMTP. IMAP is one of the incoming server methods.

Set your iCloud email account up manually. For the incoming server use these settings:

• Server name: imap.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
  If you receive errors when using SSL, try using TLS instead.
• Port: 993
• Username: The name part of your iCloud email address (for example, emilyparker, not emilyparker@icloud.com)
• Password: Your iCloud password

For the outgoing server use the settings for your domain's email service.

Do you have a website for you business? If you do you can have the provider setup email service with your domain name as the email provider. In other words if you business website is AbrahamGrit.com the email address can be XXXXX@AbrahamGrit.com.

Every email is "read" in some fashion while traveling from your machine to another. That's how items can be marked as junk or spam before you even open them.

Your ISP is more likely to snoop than Apple.

Certainly you can use your iCloud email for your business: but the service is not positioned as a business service and has no guaranteed uptime and very limited support. Furthermore you are showing your clients that you are using a free domestic service, which I wouldn't have thought was a recommendation. A properly hosted business service, with a guaranteed uptime and good telephone support, and using your own domain for the address (domains aren't at all expensive) would seem worth considering.

Are you saying Ergolad that with the new icloud you can use a personal domain? Or only if you had one on .me? mine is on Google but for sure I would like to standardize on iCloud because I have an iPad, iPhone and Mac and theoretically it should integrate better than all google.

You can only use a personal domain as the 'From' address in iCloud if in Mail or another desktop client you manually set the outgoing server in the iCloud account to something other than iCloud's SMTP server - you would use the SMTP server for your domain. You cannot do this with iCloud webmail. You would have to do this individually on all devices - I assume it's possible on an iOS device but I don't know for sure.

Thanks Roger. Just to make sure I understand; You are saying set up both accounts (iCloud and my own domain) in the Apple Mail client (or whatever client I am using) and then of course I can change it on each email I send out. Is that what you are saying?