iCloud iCloud Custom Domain, email, and mailbox issues

[MagnumOP]

Hi everyone!

Background: I am using iCloud Custom Domains. The way it works is that you have one iCloud mail account but you can send and receive mail from multiple addresses, being your iCloud account and any custom domains you set up.

The Problem: All of the email addresses function like one unified account. There is only one inbox, despite multiple addresses. This means that receiving and sending email becomes problematic. When creating a new email iCloud guesses which sending account to use. This has caused me to send email from the wrong address on multiple occasions, which is unacceptable to me.

Current "solution": I have just set up filters so that email written to each address will automatically go into its own folder. But, this does not solve the problem when writing a new message.

Help!

Does anyone have a solution for this so that each address will function more like its own account?



Thanks!

 

[zecanard]

I tried sending an email from my Gmail account to an address on my custom domain. Replying to it used the correct From address (the one that received it) rather than something random (as “guessing” would imply). I’m running the latest developer betas.

As far as creating a blank email, you can set the default outgoing account from the Mail app’s settings and at iCloud.com. But you’re right that since iCloud+ Custom Domains merely act as aliases, you can’t change the sending address based on eg. which folder you have selected. Be sure to file feedback for treating each alias as its own separate inbox. Apple made a number of major improvements recently, so they’re clearly not done with it. I imagine this is something that enterprise customers would want, so they’l likely take it seriously, since it would be a major source of revenue.