Upgrading Email Only accounts to family pack sub-accounts

[applemax]

Hi

I currently have an individual account and two email only accounts tied to it, all with @mac.com addresses.

I want to upgrade these all to a family pack membership. If I do this, will the accounts still have @mac.com addresses or will I be forced to use @me.com?

Thanks

 

[applemax]

anyone?

 

[cuanurse]

I don't know the answer to that but if I had to guess I would say that new email accounts would be @me.

 

[applemax]

I don't know the answer to that but if I had to guess I would say that new email accounts would be @me.

Yeah, that's what I thought, but this is a conversion of an existing account.

 

[applemax]

Does anyone know?

 

[applemax]

..? Has anyone else had this scenario?

 

[davidg4781]

Existing accounts that started out as @mac.com will be able to use @mac or @me....just depends which one you give out, both should work.

 

[Marquito]

I've converted two old email only accounts and they both remained @mac.com - so you should be fine.

 

[applemax]

I've converted two old email only accounts and they both remained @mac.com - so you should be fine.

To family sub accounts? Did you convert them before or after the MobileMe switchover? Thanks

 

[Marquito]

To family sub accounts? Did you convert them before or after the MobileMe switchover? Thanks

I converted them about two months ago and they were both converted to family pack sub accounts. One was an email only account linked to the master account - the other was an old @mac.com identity which I was surprised to find I was allowed to convert. I tried it just to see what would happen and it also retained the @mac.com address. Once converted, both accounts give the option of using mac.com or me.com - I set them both to .mac and have no problems with either.

So it would seem as long as the identities were registered BEFORE the me.com switchover they will retain their @mac.com functionality when converted.

 

[applemax]

I converted them about two months ago and they were both converted to family pack sub accounts. One was an email only account linked to the master account - the other was an old @mac.com identity which I was surprised to find I was allowed to convert. I tried it just to see what would happen and it also retained the @mac.com address. Once converted, both accounts give the option of using mac.com or me.com - I set them both to .mac and have no problems with either.

So it would seem as long as the identities were registered BEFORE the me.com switchover they will retain their @mac.com functionality when converted.

Thanks, I'll try it out