


(For historical reasons, Adam Engst’s primary Apple ID is, has no associated iCloud email address, and wouldn’t allow him to manage custom domains.) You must be a subscriber to iCloud+, Apple’s new name for iCloud paid plans.If you already pay for iCloud storage, you’re automatically in. You must be able to receive email at your custom email address before you set it up at iCloud because Apple needs to send it a confirmation message.

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I explain how to get around that catch-22 below. Apple does not currently provide any tools to transfer existing email messages from another email provider to your iCloud account. Macworld UK explains how to use the Mail app on the Mac to move messages from Gmail to iCloud, which should work for any email account set up in Mail. You can set up five unique domain names with an iCloud Mail account, but each person can have only three unique addresses per domain, all of which deliver to that person’s iCloud inbox.Although the article’s steps look reasonable, we haven’t tested them with thousands of messages, so proceed at your own risk and be sure to verify that messages have transferred correctly. Services like FastMail offer many more, though you have to pay for additional users. In short, iCloud Mail is still only a solution for individuals and families, not for organizations.
