iCloud email alias on windows

[northernlight]

Hi folks, thanks in advance and apologies if this has been posted before. I have been struggling with Thunderbird for accessing iCloud email on Windows 11, mainly with aliases, email folders and calendar. I am looking for an app which supports iCloud email aliases, calendar and can access all the email folders. Thanks!

Edit: I am looking for a Windows 11 app.

 

[chown33]

Are you asking for an app that runs on Windows 11?

 

[northernlight]

Are you asking for an app that runs on Windows 11?

That's right, I'm just trying to find out if anyone has successfully configured an email app for iCloud email with calendar, email alias and folder subscription, other than Thunderbird, on windows 10/11. Sorry if that wasn't clearer.

 

[chown33]

Have you tried anything other than Thunderbird on Win 11?

I ask because when I search for Windows 11 apps that use iCloud email, one of the results is for MS Outlook along with iCloud for Windows:

Set up iCloud Calendars and Contacts in Outlook on your Windows computer

With iCloud for Windows, you can view your iCloud calendars and contacts in Microsoft Outlook.

support.apple.com

Set up iCloud for Windows on your PC

Learn how to sign in to iCloud for Windows and turn features on and off.

support.apple.com

 

[northernlight]

Thunderbird used to work well before v115 except it used to unsubscribe from the folders randomly and still refuses to resubscribe, also no option for calendar syncing in the latest version.

I’ve tried emClient, Spark, Windows Mail app and Outlook so far.

What’s changed with Outlook and iCloud drive for windows is that the option to setup email on Outlook disappeared some time ago. Spark doesn’t have an inbuilt calendar afaik. emClient doesn’t readily support email aliases.

Outlook also has the option of adding an alias from the email compose window, and the received email appears to show the alias on mail app. So far so good. However Outlook doesn’t now sync calendar and contacts even after the option is enabled from the icloud app.

Mail app doesn’t support aliases. Also no calendar or contact sync afaik.

In summary, using icloud email on windows appears to be a pain.

 

[SteveJUAE]

Thunderbird used to work well before v115 except it used to unsubscribe from the folders randomly and still refuses to resubscribe, also no option for calendar syncing in the latest version.

I’ve tried emClient, Spark, Windows Mail app and Outlook so far.

What’s changed with Outlook and iCloud drive for windows is that the option to setup email on Outlook disappeared some time ago. Spark doesn’t have an inbuilt calendar afaik. emClient doesn’t readily support email aliases.

Outlook also has the option of adding an alias from the email compose window, and the received email appears to show the alias on mail app. So far so good. However Outlook doesn’t now sync calendar and contacts even after the option is enabled from the icloud app.

Mail app doesn’t support aliases. Also no calendar or contact sync afaik.

In summary, using icloud email on windows appears to be a pain.

If its a pain then you can only point at Apples Icloud for windows app and not MS Outlook

Start here for trouble shooting

Set up iCloud Calendars and Contacts in Outlook on your Windows computer

With iCloud for Windows, you can view your iCloud calendars and contacts in Microsoft Outlook.

support.apple.com

 

[maflynn]

What’s changed with Outlook and iCloud drive for windows is that the option to setup email on Outlook disappeared some time ago

I'm not sure what could have changed but in setting up outlook all I had to do was create a one time password for icloud, then I fired up outlook and created a new account, entering my icloud email address and one time password in the outlook password. It just worked

Admittedly, I've not done this in a while, so something could have changed, and to be perfectly honest, I'm finding the web client of icloud to be superior then outlook for my needs - I'm largely transitioning away from icloud mail and using protonmail. I've been inundated with spam, junk and just plain old