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iCloud+ to Let iCloud Mail Users Personalize Their Email Domain Name

I'm going to keep an eye on this. I used MobileMe & iCloud Mail for years before ditching it.

I had severe issues with spam. I was fortunate enough, back in 2008, to register MyFirstName@me.com, but over time it got spammed to oblivion despite me being very careful with whom I gave my address.

I later found that Apple's spam filtering system would 'score' each e-mail as spam (as shown in the headers) but would then still deliver it to my Inbox, despite having Junk Mail filtering turned on. Many of the servers sending spam were on blacklists but, again, Apple accepted mail from them. I even had several converations with people in Cupertino about it but with no real resolution.

If Apple have sorted out their spam filtering and provide one particular feature I'm looking for I may revert from using FastMail. The one feature is a 'catch-all' mailbox. I currently have my e-mail so that alias@mydomain.com is delivered to my Inbox. I use a different 'alias' for each website I sign up for. If any one particular alias starts receiving spam, I know exactly who leaked my address and can add a mail filter for that alias. That would be the killer feature, for me.
 
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Oh wow, this brings me back to the long thread years back about forwarding email to icloud, trying to figure out custom domains, and eventually learning about fastmail for the first time (myself).

I have dozens of mailboxes on fastmail for family and co-workers that are all on iOS/Mac. It works so well. Can’t imagine the process of attempting to switch.

One last thing I wonder, for years with iCloud mail, it would push new items but never pushed changes (reads, deletes, flags) - it only pushed updates to changes like that when new email arrived or if you manually refreshed. I hope this has changed, but I fear it hasn’t.
 
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So, what is the point of this? What would I use this for. Sorry for the dumb question, but don’t get it.
 
Canubis said:
You know you're getting old, when you remember Apple already custom domain names when it was still called .Mac (or was it even in the iTools age). 😅
Next, please bring back iCards and HomePage! 😊
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I remember Apple used to support aliases to send as your own email address (although this was more MobileMe time than .Mac), and then removed it. Did they actually offer to configure the MX entry for your domain with their own servers at some point?
 
frou said:
Uh oh, Fastmail's $50/yr from me is in danger now!
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I'd doubt that, if you are really using it. You can use 600 aliases, god knows how many domains, and spam checks are filters are efficient at the job, Fastmail is great for what it offers.
 
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macintoshmac said:
This is a good start, but they should increase the Inbox space from 5 GB for it to make sense. As of right now, 5 GB is not worth much unless you are just starting out with iCloud as a family and are in your honeymoon period with it.
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This is only available with the paid tiers as part of iCloud+. So you’ll be having 50GB minimum.
 
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bob24 said:
I remember Apple supported aliases to send as your own email address (although this was more MobileMe time than .Mac). Did they actually offer to configure the MX entry for your domain with their own servers at some point?
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There was this feature to add your own pre-registered domain to .mac.
At least it worked for websites hosted on .mac, e.g. published through iWeb . Not 100% sure right now if it worked for email as well.
 
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I'd doubt that, if you are really using it. You can use 600 aliases, god knows how many domains, and spam checks are filters are efficient at the job, Fastmail is great for what it offers.
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No doubt Fastmail has a lot more advanced options which iCloud will never offer (another one some people might be missing is that Fastmail can collect emails from external pop/imap servers).

So yes their advanced users won't even consider a transition to iCloud.

But I'd say a decent percentage of their users are paying mostly for the custom domain and would be happy to migrate to Apple of it is built-into their existing iCloud subscription and also lets them consolidate their email service with their other cloud services.
 
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the ability to create a custom email domain name
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That is really great. I managed to snag <my four letter family name>.family when the previous registrant let it lapse, 2 years ago. Absolutely will be setting this up for my parents and I guess probably the extended family on my dad's side of the family too. Of course, it's already a hassle to get them to understand that `@me.com` and `@iCloud.com` are the same thing for their email, so this may confuse that even more!
 
This is great news and one of my favourite news from WWDC. This change is however clearly focused on personal and family users.

I’ve long advocated that Apple should have a “pro” tier to iCloud that allows small businesses to use iCloud instead of O365 or Google. iCloud Drive file sharing, email aliases, calendar sharing and now with FaceTime links they have the meeting software solved.
 
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GDF said:
So, what is the point of this? What would I use this for. Sorry for the dumb question, but don’t get it.
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Think of it as a cross between custom phone numbers (i.e. 1800 USED CARS or something) and vanity license plates.

e.g. right now I have <firstname>.<lastname>@me.com (and @Mac.com/@iCloud.com because of the aliasing) but with this setup and a domain I already have, I could use <firstname>@<lastname>.family, and then give my parents, my wife, my son their own <firstname>@<lastname>.family etc, but with the ease of use of a regular iCloud mail account.
 
macintoshmac said:
I'd doubt that, if you are really using it. You can use 600 aliases, god knows how many domains, and spam checks are filters are efficient at the job, Fastmail is great for what it offers.
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(Looks at 900+ aliases currently in use on IONOS)

Rats - only 600? :)

I really gotta start trimming the list. One day…
 
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