That's what I was hoping, but iCloud+ looks rather limited compared to my email host.
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iCloud+'s New Custom Email Domain Feature Now Available in Beta
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I don't see what the difference is. Email forwarding in my google domain, I email my domain address and it shows up in my gmail account. If I would to do this in icloud email to my domain address it shows up in my icloud account. Net result is the same right? (well besides it being in icloud and not gmail).
you can send and receive from your custom domain name directly from your iCloud account on all your devices and probably also from iCloud web.
forwarding emails to iCloud.com email address doesn't allow you to properly send from this domain name. hosting on iCloud will allow this.
Because it's not forwarding, it's email hosting. Forwarding is one way. You can't send an email from myname@customdomain.com when forwarding, you can only receive. With email hosting with a custom domain, you can send and receive from that email address, as well as you can create new addresses for your family if you choose.
This was my thought. But I have two Apple IDs: an old .Mac (from 2000, when they were free!) and one from a private domain using Microsoft 365. I’d be tempted to move the private one over, but I have a feeling it might mess up one or both Apple IDs.
I assume this is similar to what I have currently with Zoho, where my domain's MX record is pointed to Zoho's email servers, so that all email for my domain goes to Zoho and not my webhost email servers.
Google and Microsoft offer something similar, where they will host your email. These types of setup are kind of expensive, since email hosts usually charge per email address account.
Google and Microsoft offer something similar, where they will host your email. These types of setup are kind of expensive, since email hosts usually charge per email address account.
Apple really doesn't have a reason to get into the domain registrar business. Sounds like the registrar you're dealing with is ripping you off. NameSilo sells .com names for $8.99 a year. Paying anything else is just a waste of money and wouldn't really add any value, especially if you're just looking to use the domain name for email.
Makes sense, but why then the requirement that you already have an existing e-mail address on that domain. I own a domain that I'd like to use, but have never figured out how to use it for e-mail (or for anything, actually). I'd love some way to just let Apple do its magic with that domain name, but this doesn't seem to be about that.
Like many, I don’t see the value in this… or most probably I don’t understand the feature.
i don’t own a domain name, so I can’t use this feature. Right?
if I owned one, I would have access to email addresses with my domain name, right?
If I owned a domain email, I could have/would have used it as my AppleID. Right?
If I owned multiple domain emails, I could have configured them in Apple Mail. Right?
So what does this do?
i don’t own a domain name, so I can’t use this feature. Right?
if I owned one, I would have access to email addresses with my domain name, right?
If I owned a domain email, I could have/would have used it as my AppleID. Right?
If I owned multiple domain emails, I could have configured them in Apple Mail. Right?
So what does this do?
This is what I would need as I currently have about 8 aliases at Fastmail for this sort of thing.
But I can through google domains...yeah it requires some setup but its free (if you own the domain). https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157
If you own your own domain name, Apple can now directly provide email services for that domain in the same way that Microsoft, Google, Fastmail, Zoho and any number of other companies can.
If you don’t own a domain name you can’t use this feature.
If you do own one, you can create email addresses for it, hosted by Apple.
Yes you can use a created mailbox as your Apple ID as long as the address you’ve created isn’t already an existing AppleID.
If you owned multiple email domains I presume that you would have to set each of them up under different AppleIDs.
What does this do? It allows you to set up email addresses such as something@yourdomain.com and receive email sent to that address as long as you already own and know how to administer yourdomain.com.
The setup doesn't seem to be working yet, but that's ok.
Forwarding is not the same as receiving at the actual domain you have. Having an actual domain hosted on a email platform gives you the ability to send as that email address without impersonation. This is important especially for security and spam.
Similar. I have a single catch-all. Every site I sign up for, I use sitename@mydomain.com.
If I start receiving spam or other unsolicited mail to a particular address, I know which website leaked my details and can nix the address without having to update my email details at any other websites.
I had this problem too but then I logged into google domains and there was a message about the dns being messed up and a "fix it" button...I probably messed with someone years ago and forgot about it.
It isn't necessarily solving a problem but adds more features to make iCloud compelling. I have used Google Workspace, called something quite different when I signed up in 2008, for hosting my custom domain email. I like owning my own personalized address that I can move from provider to provider or, as I have in the past, host my own email server. Sure, it is niche, but Office 365, Google, and others already do it so now iCloud is having some feature parity.
You said "if I owned one, I would have access to email addresses with my domain name, right?"
Correct, but you would have to be paying to have someone "host" your email. Apple is doing that without charging you anymore than you already pay for iCloud+ IOW, the hosting price is already included with your iCloud + and you don't need to pay anyone else for it.
That said, I already setup one of my domains with iCloud as of about 20 mins ago. Super easy.
yes i'm wondering this too. especially if it allows catch-all. right now we have 4 custom emails (hosted on google apps) and any email to our domain not to one of those emails comes to my inbox....
Domains are easy and cheap, just don't go to GoDaddy or NetworkSolutions where they upsell you on a lot of garbage.
Hate google all you want (I'm not a fan) but their domains.google.com is pretty much as simple as it can be without trying to trick you in to buying anything. $12 a year for most domains, fancy TLD's can be more.