I got past this by using Firefox rather than Safari. After that, the message no longer appeared when re-accessing via Safari.
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iCloud+'s New Custom Email Domain Feature Now Available in Beta
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beta.icloud.com
First cogwheel in top left corner
Composing
Send From
Set a default address, pick your preferred custom domain
Make a check mark in front of preferred aliases in custom domain.
To send
New mail icon, top right corner
From: field, select any preferred alias you put the check mark in front of above.
Done. This is NOT a forwarding service, this is hosted email.
But you have to use iCloud (or mail.app) to send email from the custom domain, correct? You can't use a 3rd party app with SMTP?
Same here. I had to stop using the feature for now because having email for both my wife and me is critical.
For family members, the sharing just doesn't work apparently. My wife is also on latest macOS Beta, but neither with Safari, Safari TP or with Firefox is it possible to add her email address :/
Also another problem: I cannot send from the email address that I first created, even from iCloud Beta website. Cannot even save the mail as a draft.
Also another problem: I cannot send from the email address that I first created, even from iCloud Beta website. Cannot even save the mail as a draft.
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Yeah it seems to only allow 3 character emails. I currently have i@mydomain.com as my email set up with my registrar. Won’t let me add that to iCloud … bummer.
Hopefully they change this during the beta.
are email forwards supported?
example: test@icloudcustomdomain.com forwards to 1@gmail.com/2@gmail.com ?
example: test@icloudcustomdomain.com forwards to 1@gmail.com/2@gmail.com ?
Same problem here. What is the best way to report feedback about beta.icloud.com?
Says my email address is already in use, is that because I am using it as a forwarding address to my iCloud email?
EDIT: There was somehow an Apple ID associated with it that I'd never used. Requested to delete it.
EDIT: There was somehow an Apple ID associated with it that I'd never used. Requested to delete it.
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As much as I love bsically everything Apple, I have no desire to transition to iCloud as an email provider over ProtonMail as it would be somewhat of a privacy and security downgrade.
Also the instructions containing the value for Cname seem to be incorrect as the Cname cannot be added to the root?
Also the instructions containing the value for Cname seem to be incorrect as the Cname cannot be added to the root?
I see that some people are having luck adding their email address that is also their Apple ID but I keep getting an error message. My Apple ID is firstname@firstnamelastname.com and I get the error message of "There was a problem adding this email address. Try again later." I've tried skipping the email address part and completed updating the records and they were confirmed. I get the same error message when trying to add email addresses after the domain setup is complete. Maybe it's just overloaded right now or there really is some kind of restriction in place that you cannot use a custom domain email address that was already your Apple ID. I reverted back to Zoho but hope they get this figured out as I was really looking forward to moving away from Zoho. You really get what you pay for with them. I spend $12 a year for a Zoho account which is the same price I pay for iCloud storage so it would be great to basically combine the two at half the cost.
Has anyone had any success getting this to work with a domain that's hosted at GoDaddy? I've tried to get my DNS records set up correctly, but I'm having no luck getting things to work.
With any IMAP account, you can generally add whatever email addresses you want to send from. To try to send from. Whether it works it us to the server. For example, with Fastmail, you configure the account with your @fastmail.com email address as the username for the servers. You obviously don't change that. But Mail.app and most third party apps separately let you put in various email addresses.
I have this exact problem. Everything about this works for me but there is one email address that I cannot add--and it used to be an Apple ID, but no longer is. If I try to add it at the initial config stage, the email validation fails. If I skip adding email, get the domain working, and then try to add it, I just get an error.
At least I know there is at least one other person with the same issue. I've posted about it in the Developer forums (which are a spam-ridden ghost town) and have put in a feedback, but it is not at all clear how to categorize this issue based on the options provided.
Sweet. Nobody steal my user name or I'll be very, very cross and I'm not paying you a dollar to own it either.
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100% agree. Unfortunately, for me, it's a little late in the game to switch. I have more than 3 aliases set up on my G Suite service. I don't understand why Apple limited it to 3 aliases for custom domains while Google and Microsoft basically allow you to have unlimited aliases for the account.
Quick ?, have 3 email addresses with G Suite, tried to add all 3 to iCloud +. Mine worked (and is my Apple ID), wife and sons failed, says already in use with another Apple ID. Both emails are in my Apple family group.
read all 13 pages, not sure what to do. Want to use the stock email app for all 3 of us. Will Apple perhaps change their criteria during/after the beta? Thought of changing both their Apple ids that don’t use the email domain I have; but seems like a pain too. Any ideas?
read all 13 pages, not sure what to do. Want to use the stock email app for all 3 of us. Will Apple perhaps change their criteria during/after the beta? Thought of changing both their Apple ids that don’t use the email domain I have; but seems like a pain too. Any ideas?
I FIGURED IT OUT
My email address was hiding out as my "notification" email address--a security thing. Not in my "reachable at" area, not my ID.
I've got my domain name... not tellin' ya what it is. Oh okay, I'll give you a hint: ends in .com . Thank you, 
- this is soooo cool as I always wanted my own domain name but without the cost and effort of paying for my own unwanted website. Thank you MacRumours for informing me that this possible. I have been considering changing my ISP so I can change my e-mail to a more universal Apple hosted one with everyone for one last time in my life and not have the nightmare when changing ISPs.
- this is soooo cool as I always wanted my own domain name but without the cost and effort of paying for my own unwanted website. Thank you MacRumours for informing me that this possible. I have been considering changing my ISP so I can change my e-mail to a more universal Apple hosted one with everyone for one last time in my life and not have the nightmare when changing ISPs.
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It's interesting, I just went to check and the poll option isn't even available on the accounts that I have on private email.com (Namecheap); the only place that setting lives is at the top-level of the mail settings now.
Anyway, I sent a mail to check and the email popped up on my iPad pretty much immediately (less than 2-3 seconds). So apparently they do support pushing mail. Funny how it's become so normal that it's not even mentioned in their docs.
Presumably that's been rolled into all the mail backends over the last few years.