Upgrading Email Only accounts to family pack sub-accounts

applemax · Jul 13, 2008, 10:26 AM

Hi

I currently have an individual account and two email only accounts tied to it, all with @mac.com addresses.

I want to upgrade these all to a family pack membership. If I do this, will the accounts still have @mac.com addresses or will I be forced to use @me.com?

Thanks

applemax · Jul 13, 2008, 03:31 PM

anyone?

cuanurse · Jul 13, 2008, 03:44 PM

I don't know the answer to that but if I had to guess I would say that new email accounts would be @me.

applemax · Jul 13, 2008, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by cuanurse

I don't know the answer to that but if I had to guess I would say that new email accounts would be @me.

Yeah, that's what I thought, but this is a conversion of an existing account.

applemax · Jan 3, 2009, 06:58 PM

Does anyone know?

applemax · 03:51 PM

..? Has anyone else had this scenario?

davidg4781 · May 31, 2009, 11:57 PM

Existing accounts that started out as @mac.com will be able to use @mac or @me....just depends which one you give out, both should work.

Marquito · Jun 1, 2009, 04:01 AM

I've converted two old email only accounts and they both remained @mac.com - so you should be fine.

applemax · Jun 1, 2009, 04:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marquito

I've converted two old email only accounts and they both remained @mac.com - so you should be fine.

To family sub accounts? Did you convert them before or after the MobileMe switchover? Thanks

Marquito · Jun 2, 2009, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by applemax

To family sub accounts? Did you convert them before or after the MobileMe switchover? Thanks

I converted them about two months ago and they were both converted to family pack sub accounts. One was an email only account linked to the master account - the other was an old @mac.com identity which I was surprised to find I was allowed to convert. I tried it just to see what would happen and it also retained the @mac.com address. Once converted, both accounts give the option of using mac.com or me.com - I set them both to .mac and have no problems with either.

So it would seem as long as the identities were registered BEFORE the me.com switchover they will retain their @mac.com functionality when converted.

applemax · Jun 5, 2009, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marquito

I converted them about two months ago and they were both converted to family pack sub accounts. One was an email only account linked to the master account - the other was an old @mac.com identity which I was surprised to find I was allowed to convert. I tried it just to see what would happen and it also retained the @mac.com address. Once converted, both accounts give the option of using mac.com or me.com - I set them both to .mac and have no problems with either.

So it would seem as long as the identities were registered BEFORE the me.com switchover they will retain their @mac.com functionality when converted.

Thanks, I'll try it out

Jul 13, 2008, 10:26 AM	#1
applemax macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: England, Great Britain	Upgrading Email Only accounts to family pack sub-accounts Hi I currently have an individual account and two email only accounts tied to it, all with @mac.com addresses. I want to upgrade these all to a family pack membership. If I do this, will the accounts still have @mac.com addresses or will I be forced to use @me.com? Thanks __________________ WWDC '08, 09, Let's Rock '08, Notebook Event '08, Macworld '09, iPhone Event '09 - Spoiler Free Veteran
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applemax Thread Starter macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: England, Great Britain	..? Has anyone else had this scenario? __________________ WWDC '08, 09, Let's Rock '08, Notebook Event '08, Macworld '09, iPhone Event '09 - Spoiler Free Veteran Last edited by applemax; May 27, 2009 at 03:51 PM.
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May 31, 2009, 11:57 PM	#7
davidg4781 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Moulton, TX	Existing accounts that started out as @mac.com will be able to use @mac or @me....just depends which one you give out, both should work. __________________ 2010 MBP 2.4GHz 4GB RAM 750GB HDD iPhone 4S 32GB - Sprint iPod nano 2GB - 2nd gen.
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Jul 13, 2008, 03:44 PM	#3
cuanurse macrumors regular Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Virginia	I don't know the answer to that but if I had to guess I would say that new email accounts would be @me.
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Jun 1, 2009, 04:01 AM	#8
Marquito macrumors newbie Join Date: Jul 2008	I've converted two old email only accounts and they both remained @mac.com - so you should be fine.
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