questions about @mac.com email address in 2017

[biopig]

Hi all,

I had my @mac.com email address maybe 12 or more years ago, it was a subscription service. I know that the .Mac service has evolved to iCloud today, and I tried to login using this @mac.com email account and the password I had, successfully logged in but it asks me to create security questions and so on, like setting up a new account. After everything's done, I login to iCloud, but there's no email service icon in the launchpad until I registered an @iCloud.com email address. Now this @mac.com email address is available for iCloud service, iMessages and FaceTime, but NOT email service. I tried to sent email to this address, and got the "undeliverable" reply:
ms11p00im-qufv17094201.mac.com gave this error:
unknown or illegal alias: ****@mac.com

Anyone knows how to get it work again?

 

[Rigby]

Apparently the grandfathered .mac.com addresses are only available for email if you migrated from an active Mobile Me account to iCloud before 8/2012. See this support article:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201771

"If you had a working @mac.com email address as of July 9, 2008, kept your MobileMe account active, and moved to iCloud before August 1, 2012, you can use @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses with your iCloud account."