Reusing an email alias from an old MM account?

[jb60606]

I foolishly opened a MM account with an account name I now regret. I'm okay with spending the extra dough to open a new account and start over, though I'd like to use an email alias I created/associated with my current account as the primary account-name/email-address (first_name.last_name@me.com).

Is this possible, or is that email address going to be reserved/unavailable for the time being? Has anyone tried this before?

If you're wondering why I care, since I can just send/receive email on my current account using the first.last@me.com alias: it's because the iPhone won't let you send email from an alias (which is where I send most of my mail).

Thanks

 

[jb60606]

Just found the link to iChat MobileMe support and spoke with one of their techs. Unfortunately, you can't use an alias as a member name, even if you close the old account.

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G 16GB: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)

Someone on another thread said Apple Support changed their main username for them. Why not try that instead of starting over?

 

[jb60606]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G 16GB: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)

Someone on another thread said Apple Support changed their main username for them. Why not try that instead of starting over?

because the main username I want to use is an 'alias' for my current username. Apple said I can't do that.

My only option is to create a new account and, like the guy you mentioned, have apple close the old account and move to the new one.