Although... this may not be a flaw. Say that I have mysurname.com, and on it, email address for myself, my parents, and my nephews and nieces. They way it works with family sharing, if my parents are in my "Apple family" that's fine, we can all be shared and use the mysurname.com email, but my understanding was I couldn't with my nephews & nieces because they're not in my "Apple family". This setup, which lets you add any - I think - sounds like it would be a way to get around that limitation. My nephews/neices could just go through these steps to set it up for themselves. Or at least, sounds like it.
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Although... this may not be a flaw. Say that I have mysurname.com, and on it, email address for myself, my parents, and my nephews and nieces. They way it works with family sharing, if my parents are in my "Apple family" that's fine, we can all be shared and use the mysurname.com email, but my understanding was I couldn't with my nephews & nieces because they're not in my "Apple family". This setup, which lets you add any - I think - sounds like it would be a way to get around that limitation. My nephews/neices could just go through these steps to set it up for themselves. Or at least, sounds like it.
Can you even see it in your beta.icloud.com/mail settings? If I go to settings in beta.icloud.com/mail I can't see it under accounts or as a option for set as default address under composing.
The “verify your email address” mail never arrives so I can’t get past that stage…. Not in spam or anything…
To be honest I was wrong anyway.
The TXT record Apple have you add - apple-domain=hAkdjaDmka is the very verification step I said was missing in my post. Not sure how I missed it.
Delete the e-mail address and skip step 2. Add the domain into iCloud, then re-add the e-mail address.
If it still doesn't work, put your DNS settings back how they were.
If I own a domain name but I don’t have email hosting with my domain name, how can I make this works? I’m searching in my domain name settings but I can only add MX records and it doesn’t work. Can someone help me with this?
You need to have a CNAME record with the value "sig1._domainkey" as name and the value "sig1.dkim."INSERTYOURDOMAINHERE".at.icloudmailadmin.com" as target.
Hard to say what's wrong without knowing your domain name or what you've set in the CloudFlare DNS settings.
My testing so far has shown that, if Apple's verification says something isn't set up properly, then it probably isn't.
The statement "send and receive email with a custom domain" doesn't appear to be the actual functionality. It appears to a simple email forwarding service which only works on the receiving side...not an actual hosted email account. When I send something to me@mydomain.com it gets forwarded to myname@icloud.com. I'm not sure how you would SEND something and have it appear to come from me@mydomain.com unless there's some type of smtp sending instructions that aren't published yet. Perhaps I'm missing something???
How do you know it's being forwarded to myname@icloud.com? I see no easy way to actual view this on beta.icloud.com/mail?
You should not use the cloudflare proxy option on any of these records. Click the cloud image to the far right so it says DNS only instead of Proxied.
That's why all of this requires custom TXT records, MX records, DKIM record and SPF record on the public domain registrar. Only the owner of the domain is able to edit and add such records. So no, unless you actually own the domain and have access to edit these DNS records you won't be able to utilise that domain.
dude, no - apple isnt giving you a free domain name - you need to own it already. Do you own @bike.com?
That was it!! Thanks. There was no indication in the CLoudFlare DNS settings that this was more than just an icon.
Your records seems to be wrong.
DNS Entry should contain the correct name for the records. You have named your DKIM record "CNAME", your Apple domain key to "office" and your SPF record to SPF.
They should all be your domain (example "domain.com") or "@". @ simply means your domain.