All you need to do is have both mailboxes setup in Mail, then drag all your emails from one account to the other - then sit back while Mail does it thing. I'm not sure how any import/migrate tool could so it any easier than that.
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iCloud+'s New Custom Email Domain Feature Now Available in Beta
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All you need to do is have both mailboxes setup in Mail, then drag all your emails from one account to the other - then sit back while Mail does it thing. I'm not sure how any import/migrate tool could so it any easier than that.
Starting with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, users with a paid iCloud+ storage plan can personalize their iCloud email address with a custom domain name, such as johnny@appleseed.com, and the feature is now available in beta.
iCloud+ subscribers interested in setting up a custom email domain can visit the beta.icloud.com website, select "Account Settings" under their name, and select "Manage" under "Custom Email Domain." Users can send and receive email with up to five custom domains, while family members can each have up to three email addresses per domain.
After entering a custom domain on the iCloud website, users can add email addresses that they currently use with the domain. Users can also create new email addresses after they have finished setting up the domain with iCloud, according to Apple. Note that any custom email addresses must not be in use with another Apple ID.
For those who missed the announcement back at WWDC in June, iCloud+ is Apple's new branding for paid iCloud storage combined with new features like iCloud Private Relay and Hide My Email. iCloud+ features are included with iCloud storage plans at no additional cost, with prices remaining set at $0.99 per month for 50GB of storage, $2.99 per month for 200GB of storage, or $9.99 per month for 2TB of storage in the United States.
The ability to use a custom email address for iCloud is not to be confused with Hide My Email, a separate iCloud+ feature that allows users to create unique, random email addresses that forward to their personal inbox so they can send and receive email without having to share their real email address.
(Thanks, Tommaso Armstrong!)
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It has been over 24 hours now and I am still getting email from that address. I still have the domain setup but just deleted the address from iCloud.
That wouldn’t be an issue. My iCloud account is from the .Mac days so I have @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com addresses and I always used the mac.com address as my default.
I’m curious if, for some of us with older accounts that have the@me emails, that the internal routing is causing errors. For those that have got it working - can anyone provide an example? Do you have access to an @me.com account or just @icloud.com accounts?
My theory is - it’s working for newer accounts that only have @icloud.com emails, but is not working for older accounts that have both @me.com and @icloud.com emails.
Interesting results. I just decided to send from the custom domain to the same custom domain with a different user and I don't get a bounce but I also didn't receive the email. I think Apple has some routing problems with their beta.
Has anyone found a way to setup their custom domain in Big Sur's mail? It works on iOS 15 DB7 and on the web but not on older versions. Any workaround?
I think you hit on it. I just tested, and as soon as I did that procedure, the email address showed up on iOS as an available send-from address.
For those unable to add a certain custom address, good news: I found the problem. Bad news: it’s unfixable (for now).
The emails I’m unable to add are listed as secondary contacts for my Apple ID. Attempting to delete it on appleID.Apple.com freezes the site, trying to do the same in the iPhone settings comes up with “Cannot iCloud”
I’ve submitted a bug report in the Feedback app in iOS 15 beta. The more of us who do so, the quicker this will get fixed.
The emails I’m unable to add are listed as secondary contacts for my Apple ID. Attempting to delete it on appleID.Apple.com freezes the site, trying to do the same in the iPhone settings comes up with “Cannot iCloud”
I’ve submitted a bug report in the Feedback app in iOS 15 beta. The more of us who do so, the quicker this will get fixed.
What’s strange is that my custom domain is showing up on my M1 MacBook Air on 11.5.2 but not on my 2017 15” MacBook Pro on 11.5.2
I have an older .me account as well. I can send emails no problem but get the hops error as well:
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient address: HIDDEN
Reason: SMTP transmission failure has occurred
Diagnostic code: smtp;554 5.4.0 Error: too many hops
Remote system: dns;smtpout.mac.com (TCP|172.17.0.2|53277|10.112.84.233|25) (iCloud SMTP - mr85p00im-ztdg06011801.me.com 3.5.0 [2116B30-0009dff0785a])
Reporting-MTA: dns;ms44016.mac.com (tcp-daemon)
Arrival-date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:13:17 +0000 (GMT)
Original-recipient: rfc822;HIDDEN
Final-recipient: rfc822;HIDDEN
Action: failed
Status: 5.4.0 (SMTP transmission failure has occurred)
Remote-MTA: dns;smtpout.mac.com (TCP|172.17.0.2|53277|10.112.84.233|25)
(iCloud SMTP - mr85p00im-ztdg06011801.me.com 3.5.0 [2116B30-0009dff0785a])
Diagnostic-code: smtp;554 5.4.0 Error: too many hops
Can anybody help me set up the custom domain feature DNS settings on godaddy? The instructions I was sent dont seem to relate to what godaddy shows me…
Specifically I can’t seem to get past the MX verify step. As far as I can tell I am following the instructions properly, but I am seriously stuck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Specifically I can’t seem to get past the MX verify step. As far as I can tell I am following the instructions properly, but I am seriously stuck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can anybody create a custom domain email adress with an hyphen in the adress? I try to do it myself but as long as there’s an hyphen in it I get an error message
More and more people are reporting this weird "too many hops" error when sending email to their custom domain.
The consensus is that it only affects older iCloud users who joined the service during either iTools, .Mac or MobileMe days. In other words, if your iCloud email address has either @mac.com or @me.com alias (in addition to @icloud.com), you are affected. If your iCloud email address only has @icloud.com ending, you are not affected.
Only Apple can fix this. There's nothing you can do, except report it.
The consensus is that it only affects older iCloud users who joined the service during either iTools, .Mac or MobileMe days. In other words, if your iCloud email address has either @mac.com or @me.com alias (in addition to @icloud.com), you are affected. If your iCloud email address only has @icloud.com ending, you are not affected.
Only Apple can fix this. There's nothing you can do, except report it.
As I mentioned before, mine is even older than the MobileMe days and my custom domain is working fine. I had the DNS entries switched over and I was sending and receiving emails through iCloud within 5 minutes.
I did some research about iCloud spam filtering when this was first announced because I was considering switching as well. Everything I read said it was really good. Reports pretty much ranged from ‘almost as good as Gmails’ to ‘just as good as Gmails.’
This isn’t true. My iCloud account is originally a .Mac account from 2006. I don’t have this issue. The only thing possibly noteworthy about my account is it was originally a corporate account issued to me when I worked at Apple. Either way though, it was still created long before MobileMe existed.
New info. I changed my DNS to have only a MX record (and the other records listed by the instructions.) Now I'm getting an error that says I don't have an A record. Yes, there is no website associated with my email address. Is this something new?
Why does it seem to be looking for an A record. My host is purely MX records with the required TXT and CNAME sections.
This is a system-generated message to inform you that your email could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. Details of the email and the error are as follows:
<owner@example.com>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error
for name=example.com type=A: Host found but no data record of
requested type
Reporting-MTA: dns; [URL='http://pv50p00im-ztdg10012001.me.com/']pv50p00im-ztdg10012001.me.com[/URL]
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: C572A28027E
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; user@example.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 05:04:28 +0000 (UTC)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; owner@example.com
Original-Recipient: rfc822;owner@example.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.4.4
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Host or domain name not found. Name service error
for name=example.com type=A: Host found but no data record of
requested type
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Sounds more like wrong MX config; fallback to A according RFC. Check it in terminal with:
dig -t MX domain.com
dig -t MX domain.com