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Do People use iCloud for Mail
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I would be interested in seeing your proof of Proton being an NSA honeypot disguised as encrypted email.
I agree with your comment about Google's biased censorship.
I strongly agree with "The world is going to crap".
not as my main account but yes i use icloud.
for one, it's got everything to do with my apple account so my subscription stuff and any receipts/proof of insurance for iOS or product purchases goes there and all my iCloud "hide my email" alias are forwarded to it. so i use it a lot.
gmail was my main email provider but i moved to outlook. i did think about going all in with iCloud but decided against it. if i remember right it was because it didn't work properly with the windows mail client but i've ditched that now. probably i'll move back to gmail. outlook isn't bad but i have other microsoft products/services and i don't like having all my eggs in one basket. i don't even have a google account anymore and haven't for about 3 years.
for one, it's got everything to do with my apple account so my subscription stuff and any receipts/proof of insurance for iOS or product purchases goes there and all my iCloud "hide my email" alias are forwarded to it. so i use it a lot.
gmail was my main email provider but i moved to outlook. i did think about going all in with iCloud but decided against it. if i remember right it was because it didn't work properly with the windows mail client but i've ditched that now. probably i'll move back to gmail. outlook isn't bad but i have other microsoft products/services and i don't like having all my eggs in one basket. i don't even have a google account anymore and haven't for about 3 years.
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I don't use my icloud email. But I do love hide my email feature from iCloud+. Firefox does the same thing but without cloud storage.
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I don't think I have ever had any problems with the iPhone/iPad/Mac Mail + iCloud for Mail.
However just noticed that at some point my Outlook account in iPhone Mail had just quietly stopped working and I missed one important email. I went back to using my Outlook account with the Outlook app.
However just noticed that at some point my Outlook account in iPhone Mail had just quietly stopped working and I missed one important email. I went back to using my Outlook account with the Outlook app.
Outlook's MS Exchanges had couple of bugs in recent months. You can try use IMAP instead by creating app password if you enabled 2FA
I noticed that all mails were available on my Mac and iPad, so I think the problem was on the iPhone and/or Mail client.
No, it wasn't a scam. In the early days when Gmail was first starting up, they did it by sending out a limited number of invitations to website owners, developers, etc, and encouraged those people to share an invitation with their friends. One of my friends happened to be an early invitee and sent me and a couple of our mutual friends invitations, too, so I took advantage of it. I still have and use that account.That seems like a scam.
Good times never seemed so good.
So good! So good!
iCloud email has some good features. One negative is that it blocks people it may perceive as Spam very aggressively.
And by blocking, I don't mean putting it in the Junk folder, which would be fine. It will just block it, and you will NEVER know.
That's why iCloud is a terrible choice for verification emails for instance.
And by blocking, I don't mean putting it in the Junk folder, which would be fine. It will just block it, and you will NEVER know.
That's why iCloud is a terrible choice for verification emails for instance.
Interesting. Over the years I have used my main address, aliases and lately hide-my-email addresses and I don’t remember ever having any issues (with verification for example).
I use iCloud Mail, though my main alternate email is AOL, believe it or not. I receive effectively no spam on AOL or iCloud, but back when I had Gmail, the amount of spam getting past the filters was ridiculous.
Good. But it can happen. And there is no recourse when it does. Unclear why Apple adopts this block policy rather than just marking as Spam and letting user determine if a mistake has been made. It also does so wrongly.
Im not an Alphabet fan but this does not happen with Gmail.
Being able to use your own domain with iCloud though is a great feature and so is the simplicity of hide my email
I have wanted to switch my email with custom domain to icloud since this was offered. My issue is the web based email honestly stinks. If I was 100% mac it wouldn't be an issue but a Windows pc is a must at work. I suppose I could use something like Thunderbird but I would prefer to everything staying Apple.
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I've been using iCloud for email for so long that I actually have one of my aliases as iCloud@iCloud.com . Yeh, that's right! I've been using it since before iCloud.com was the defaulted domain, when MobileMe was still a thing. In fact, I still prefer using my @me.com alias over the iCloud.com alias.
Oh and on a separate note, I also happened to have been one of the very first Gmail users ever. I was included in the first 1,000 Gmail individual invitations that went out to very select people by Google, all back when Gmail was still very hush hush.
Oh and on a separate note, I also happened to have been one of the very first Gmail users ever. I was included in the first 1,000 Gmail individual invitations that went out to very select people by Google, all back when Gmail was still very hush hush.
