I am considering switching from google mail to iCloud and am curious about your opinions.
I know there will be a lot of accounts I would have to change my email in, but most of my important accounts already have email addresses from apples „hide my mail“ function, so I am willing to do that work. And for the rest an automatic email forwarding will do.
A few questions are already in my mind, maybe someone can answer them for me:
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Will my 2TB iCloud be used for my emails? Or would I need an additional subscription?
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Is it possible to migrate all my mails from gmail to iCloud without any third party tools?
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And to everyone already using a iCloud email as primary mail account -> What are your experiences so far? Any problems?
If you are already paying for iCloud+, you might want to invest in your own domain and set up “Custom Email Domain”. That way if you decided to make another move in the future you won’t have to change your e-mail address. I recently switch from Google Apps to iCloud for e-mail, and didn’t have to inform anyone.
That’s a thing I already thought about many times. But for me it’s more important being able to throw away an email-address if I don’t need it anymore. As I wrote in another comment here I use apples hide my email in nearly all of my accounts (still working on switching everything). The email that is behind all that doesn’t matter, it just has to have enough space. And that’s what I have with my iCloud subscription.
Another reason I am doing this is being able to tell who exactly leaked your data (if it happens someday). As every account I make gets his unique mail-adress from me, I will then be able to exactly tell where my data was stolen from.
I use Hide My Email whenever I can, and then use custom domain name for official stuff. Works really well.
The only annoyance is you cannot send emails from the email aliases directly, you can only use it when replying to an email received on that alias.
Yes I do exactly the same. I love that feature! You actually can send mails via hide my mail, but I think you mean send via an already existing one, right?
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Yes, you can only reply to emails you received via hide my mail, but cannot compose new ones. This is a dealbreaker for some use cases, but the potential for abuse is understandable.
Seconding this. Having your own domain is so worth it for being independent of your email provider alone imo, and depending on which name you get, could even be cheaper than iCloud+ 50GB. Plus of course you can use it for other stuff such as a personal website in the future if you ever get the desire (:
I’ve been thinking about this for a while so I’ll ask, no kinks yet or anything one should know first?
I’m worried it might mess with apples “hide my email” thing, did you have that setup before moving?
You retain your Apple email as well, so everything should just work. I only have one or two hide accounts, but I think it has been working for me.
Only glitch I’ve seen is that I have a family plan, and it stopped working on my kid’s phone. Kicked them out and added them back and all was good.