So far so good. I used Google Workspace for my custom domain prior to this. The experience isn’t really much different except for better integration with Apple’s mail clients since it’s not using a hack-y implementation of IMAP like Gmail does. So for one it saves me money by not having to pay Google every month for the service. I also never have to think about how much space my mailbox is taking up anymore since I have 2TB of iCloud storage. Not that I was getting close to my 30GB limit on my Google Workspace account, but still, it’s nice not to have to even consider it anymore.
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iCloud+'s New Custom Email Domain Feature Now Available in Beta
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Not only do I not have those options, but my browser version of iCloud doesn’t look like that. The menus and format are different. FWIW I’m accessing it in safari on an iPad Pro. Here is what I see:
That's what I meant in my original message when I said I'd obscured my domain. The error occurs with myactualdomain.com, I just overtyped that with [domain] before taking the screenshot.
You need to use beta.icloud.com which is where you would have added the custom domain.
I'm the owner of my family group. I was able to add my 3 domain names under my account.
but when I try to add an email alias under my wife's account, I have the same error message.
Update: now my iCloud mail in-browser looks like this…:
This is across multiple devices, both iOS and PC. It also crashes when I try and navigate the broken options. What the heck…
This is across multiple devices, both iOS and PC. It also crashes when I try and navigate the broken options. What the heck…
I'm not finished reading all the thread...
if you didn't figure it out, you have to put "0" in front of the server address... so "0 mx01.mail.icloud.com"
Thank you, I only realized that now! Please see my post above (sorry for double-post) as my beta iCloud mail is very corrupted…
Is it possible to use domain aliases on this service? For example, is there a way to set things up so that mydomain.com is the registered domain, but that emails sent to name@mydomain.net automatically redirect to name@mydomain.com? How would one do this?
If you change it to US does that make any difference? I noticed that some of the text for custom domains wasn't formatted correctly if I set it to UK.
You do realise this is just a Beta at this stage? I'm sure it'll be released to the public once the kinks are worked out.
Yeah, I know its Beta, but I can't get it to work at all, feels more than just a bug.
same here .. but it least it works for her without adding - try to send to her alias, in my case it arrives in the iCloud-mailbox
I was able to add all my 3 domains names in my account.
but I cannot add any email aliases to any of my family members.
also, impossible to add email address like firstname1-firstname2.lastname@domain.com... but firstname1firstname2lastname@domain.com works fine.
but I cannot add any email aliases to any of my family members.
also, impossible to add email address like firstname1-firstname2.lastname@domain.com... but firstname1firstname2lastname@domain.com works fine.
That actually did work thanks so much for that tip. Corruption is gone, and now I can correctly see multiple accounts, and choose which one generates responses, as well as being able to set a default.
One final question for anyone: is there a way to have separate inboxes for each address, default iCloud and custom domain?
Also, I see that none of these options exist within iOS itself but are accessible only on beta icloud. I suppose this will be changed with the next release of iOS/iPadOS.
Thanks all!
I had to wait 20 min and try again. Took a bit to populate (Be sure not to use the ")
Forgive me for the dumb questions. I'm kindof a "monkey see, monkey do" level of expertise in setting up domains. I do it once a decade and just do what I'm told.
The apple instructions specify the MX records (which I'm sure won't be an issue) but they also define a cname record and two TXT records which is why I'm a bit worried, but you've talked me off the ledge.
not dumb questions, always good to learn.
The TXT records are just text and would have to be specifically looking for them.
So I successfully setup my custom domain name and it works flawlessly to receive messages. But I don’t see anywhere to send messages, both on beta.icloud.com and on my iOS 15 beta devices. I search in my iCloud Mail settings like some people proposed, but my custom domain email adress isn’t there, only my iCloud (and aliases) account. Do some people have found a fix for that? I tried to sign out and sign in on beta.icloud.com too, no luck so far