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iCloud+'s New Custom Email Domain Feature Now Available in Beta
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As of this morning, the emails with custom domains that I set up last night now appear in my Mail app on iOS as a send From address. It looks like it just some time to propagate.
I have Apple IDs in multiple countries that are aliased (radioactive@mydomain.com and radioactive@mydomain.eu) at Google Apps. It's clear that the two Apple IDs can't be associated with the same account, so I changed the domain.eu account to another random gmail address, and tried to move the domian.eu account to Apple.
I try and verify the radioactive@domain.eu email address into the domain, I get the error
Couldn’t verify your email
There was a problem verifying your email address. Try again later.I transferred the domain by using radioactive2@domain.eu, but even after it's transferred, I am still unable to add radioactive@mydomain.eu as an alias.
I saw it's possible to delete the account from the Apple Privacy website, but it looks like something is stuck in Apple backend where my changed email address is not reflected. Any suggestions?
Update: The error cleared after a few hours, and I was able to add my radioactive@mydomain.eu address after changing the "radioactive@mydomain.eu" Apple ID to another (unrelated) gmail address. TL;DR, give it a few hours and you're good.
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Good to hear. I set mine up late afternoon and still don't have them showing up on my iOS devices (beta) despite even trying to log in and out of iCloud to get it "kickstarted." I'll give it some more time.
I'm curious to know what percentage of folks successfully DO see their personal domain as an option in iOS
All setup, only took a few minutes and I now have my custom domain setup for family sharing use. Setup my mail and set as default and its working fine. Not sure what took Apple so long to implement this but better late than never.
You have to create an @iCloud.com email address to enable your iCloud mailbox. You don't need to use this address but it will be the underlying address on your iCloud account.
Can you send e-mail from that domain or only receive? If you can, are you using iOS and MacOS beta?
I have setup addr1@mydomain.de and addr2@mydomain.de under my account (addr2 is really for my wife but she cannot set up any addresses right now, just shows an error).
Under iCloud Beta web interface, I can send from addr2, but I cannot send from addr1.
Under my iOS 15 PB 7, I can send from addr1 in the Mail app,but addr2 doesn't show up. Actually both addresses work on iOS now, that's good. So hopefully we will get a new macOS Beta shortly where this works equally well, because currently macOS doesn't work at all for me.
Receiving works fine for all addresses on all platforms for me.
Under iCloud Beta web interface, I can send from addr2, but I cannot send from addr1.
Under my iOS 15 PB 7, I can send from addr1 in the Mail app,
Receiving works fine for all addresses on all platforms for me.
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OK, so it seems one of the bugs is that the first address that you setup is not showing in the FROM field and you can't use it to send, only receive. I have the same issue, it doesn't appear in the mail app (non beta) or beta.icloud.com .
How do we report bugs to Apple?
How do we report bugs to Apple?
There are additional employees. Your reasoning is the limited number email addresses per domain?
Works fine for me. I had to sign out of iCloud and sign back in to get it to show up.
Possibly stupid question -
If I set up name1@domain.com and name2@domain.com, are these handled as completely separate email accounts on iCloud? Or as aliases of the same underlying iCloud account? And when I use Mac mail app (or iOS mail app) to access email, do these accounts show up separately (i.e. each with their own inbox, archive, trash, etc)?
Thanks!
If I set up name1@domain.com and name2@domain.com, are these handled as completely separate email accounts on iCloud? Or as aliases of the same underlying iCloud account? And when I use Mac mail app (or iOS mail app) to access email, do these accounts show up separately (i.e. each with their own inbox, archive, trash, etc)?
Thanks!
I tried to sign in and out of iCloud on my iPhone and still not seeing it.... I guess we need to wait
Thanks. I’ve just submitted a bug report, too. Let’s hope they fix the issue. Would be great to be able to send emails from the correct address again.
Just added my own custom domain and then added an e-mail address on that domain to my iCloud account and everything works on the first try.
One huge advantage over Google is that we get push notifications for e-mail.
One huge advantage over Google is that we get push notifications for e-mail.
I was able to set up using my apple ID email on my owned domain however, my family all used those domain emails for their IDs so I am confused. so I undid everything. There is not a lot of info on the help screens
Anyone trying this with a 1and1-hosted domain, I've discovered that 1&1 don't allow underscores in their CNAME entries, but the iCloud DKIM string includes one. It seems that people have been asking them to rectify this since at least 2018, so I'm not holding my breath for them to change this any time soon.
It looks like I'm going to have to change my domain hosting company, maybe to LCN.co.uk as I have a couple of domains with them already, but I don't want to go through the process and cost of transferring only to find it won't work with them either.
Before I do, has anyone managed to set this up with 1&1?
Edit: Having just been on a chat with 1&1 CS, they've told me they don't even support DKIM records. Time to find a new host!
It looks like I'm going to have to change my domain hosting company, maybe to LCN.co.uk as I have a couple of domains with them already, but I don't want to go through the process and cost of transferring only to find it won't work with them either.
Before I do, has anyone managed to set this up with 1&1?
Edit: Having just been on a chat with 1&1 CS, they've told me they don't even support DKIM records. Time to find a new host!
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I have the same issue here. My wife and kids all use theirs for their Apple IDs. Wonder what the solution is
Has anyone figured out how to solve "Couldn’t verify your email
There was a problem verifying your email address. Try again later."?
There was a problem verifying your email address. Try again later."?
Sure. The difference is just that you can now handle that email on your custom domain through iCloud mail instead of Google or some other solution.
Anybody have this working with Fasthosts ? All DNS entries check out OK but still getting "too many hops" error on incoming mail.
Driving me nuts !
Driving me nuts !
i've got a similar family set up... I'm trying to find out if there is a way to transfer all the existing email from google to apple 'server-to-server'. ie-import or migrate it. do you happen to know?
Dumb question for those w/ Google workplace domains. What happens if I switch all the records Apple needs from pointing to Google Workplace to Apple. will I still be able to log into my google workplace account with the email address? (I realize I'll no longer receive emails there, but I'd like to be able to salvage all my "stuff")