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202alpha

Custom Domain Email Flaw

iCloud Mail

Whilst I’m loving the fact that I could use my personal domains with iCloud, there seems to be two flaws preventing me from using it:

  1. You cannot have an email starting with numbers which is very frustrating e.g. [email protected]

  2. Absence of a catch all feature

Now I know this is very new on iCloud to have a custom domain - but I think there’s still a lot more to do In order to compete with other services.

Has anyone else come across anything preventing them from wanting to make the switch to iCloud email?

Posted Sep 22, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

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Prestigious_Goose_10•

I wasn’t able to use an email set up in custom domains as my Apple ID. If you have it set up prior it will work but then it won’t show up as a send from email and removes itself from your iMessage and FaceTime emails you can be contacted at.

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Edg-R•

Make sure you leave feedback for any issue you find

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202alphaOP•

What’s the best way to do that?

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AlligatorAxe•

feedbackassistant.apple.com, under iOS

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codeniv•

Were you able to add emails at all? I've tried every day on 4 different domains and always getting an error with "try again later"

Just now I tried a new domain and actually took a look at the emails they send and noticed this: https://imgur.com/BHXNo56

This is the richest company in the world and can't even check the contents of their transactional emails.

Side question: did you have any iCloud aliases before adding your custom domain? I have so many aliases as my account is from the "@mac.com" days and so I've collected several addresses with mac, me and icloud.

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202alphaOP•

I’d never used it before, and had been long planning to switch to Google Workspace rather than using email straight from cPanel, and then Apple released iCloud+ - so I thought “perfect” but alas there were teething problems.

I am able to add my domains but not able to use them with numbers which is very annoying

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