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Do you still have your @Mac.com / Me.com email address?
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I still have my .mac account. It's become a spam fest over the past few years so I don't have it activated on my Mac. I have it activated on my iPhone and I don't see the spam through that at least.
Use "xx@Mac" for apple ID and related apple account logins itunes / etc.
Use "xx@me" for personal email - nice short easy to use
Use "xx@gmx" for my real email
and "gmail" for new logins where I might get spam (used to be my working email)
Use "xx@me" for personal email - nice short easy to use
Use "xx@gmx" for my real email
and "gmail" for new logins where I might get spam (used to be my working email)
I'm another one who has their mac.com email address as their primary Apple ID.
It's picked up me.com and icloud.com aliases over the years but I rarely use them and prefer the old school one
It's picked up me.com and icloud.com aliases over the years but I rarely use them and prefer the old school one
Yep!
I only ever login to check it when I want to see about 400 new Spam messages...
It's shocking how spam filled that address is actually.
I only ever login to check it when I want to see about 400 new Spam messages...
It's shocking how spam filled that address is actually.
yeah but you could make your own web site and store pictures and documents there etc. - which was pretty cool back then!
Yes, I still have the 10 addresses (5 pseudonyms for .me and 5 for .mac). They are what I've been using all along, even from before, when it was iTools.
I still have a "@me.com". I use it for iCloud and signing up for anything that I will use primarily on my phone. I didn't get a MacBook until 2014, but I've had an iPhone since 2012 and an iPod Touch a couple of years before that. My iTunes account is under a "@aol.com" though. I don't think that address is even officially active. They need to give us the ability to change iTunes account emails.
I believe you are now able to change your Apple ID email at https://appleid.apple.com/ now, as long as your primary email is not already set to an @mac.com, @me.com, or @icloud.com address. If you mean you have two completely separate Apple IDs, not just two emails on one account, then you still cannot merge them, unfortunately.
As for the topic, yes, I do still have my .Mac address and have used it as my primary since I got it with my first Mac back in 2007.
I get the same reaction in Apple stores when I ask for the receipt to be mailed to my @mac.com address. ALways gets a comment and a smile from staff who’ve been with the company for a while.
My @mac.com email is my primary account for day to day use and has been since the .mac box purchase days.
I use my @me.com exclusively. @icloud.com is set up in a filter on icloud.com to weed out spam emails. never given out myemail@icloud.com so if i get a speculative spam email, it's dealt with accordingly (my email address is pretty short).
How do you access it? trought Icloud mine is not working...it logs in but there's no mail
