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:

  • Will my 2TB iCloud be used for my emails? Or would I need an additional subscription?

  • Is it possible to migrate all my mails from gmail to iCloud without any third party tools?

  • And to everyone already using a iCloud email as primary mail account -> What are your experiences so far? Any problems?

  • cerevant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Gorroth@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

            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.

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      1 year ago

      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 (:

  • Christian Gajewski@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Using iCloud mail since 2011, no issues. Yes, mail uses your iCloud storage. To migrate your emails, open the Mail app on Mac, select all from the Gmail archive and search for “move to other folder” from the menu. Move to iCloud archive. You can follow the same process for any other folder.

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      1 year ago

      What’s interesting is that Gmail acts the same way with google drive. I once had a woman who hadn’t received an email in over a year because she stuffed her gmail drive full of photos.

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          1 year ago

          You’re probably right about that. This inbox had more venereal diseases than an old west brothel. I wonder if it was outpacing this feature?

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      1 year ago

      Thank you, that’s good to know! Do you know if there is a way to do that without a Mac? Is there like an option on the iCloud website to import mails from gmail?

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    1 year ago

    I migrated to iCloud in Feb 2022. It was a bit tedious to change the email address to all services, for some I had to create a new account since changing email address was not possible. I like how iCloud mail has worked, I use the web interface on my work laptop and Mail apps on iPhone and Mac, I haven’t faced any issues with it.

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    1 year ago

    I had never bothered with iCloud Mail before, but I started using it recently as a secondary mail account when they introduced custom domains.

    It’s been fine so far, the service seems reliable, no spam problems, and it was easy to set up initially. I find the Apple Mail client good enough for my email needs so no issues with that, I can’t speak for how iCloud Mail works with other clients however.

    It’s good enough that I may eventually switch to it as my primary email provider.

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    1 year ago

    I started using iCloud email nice I found out that we can setup custom email addresses. Oddly enough, I’m using google domains still so not too far out of the Google ecosystem just yet.

    As for the experience, gmail does a better job at finding spam. Sometimes iCloud mail will mark it as junk but it’s not too big of an issue.

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      1 year ago

      Ah yes. MobileMe. Such a terrible name for something that was out of apple naming. Something like iD. Would’ve been better.

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      1 year ago

      My main email is @me.com but sometimes I’ll use @icloud.com too. It’s handy for websites I want two accounts for as on my end they’re both treated as one email account but on their end I’m two separate people.

      I used to have @mac.com too but I lost access to that some time ago and I don’t use what I had in front of the @ anymore anyways.

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      My main email is @me.com but sometimes I’ll use @icloud.com too. It’s handy for websites I want two accounts for as on my end they’re both treated as one email account but on their end I’m two separate people.

      I used to have @mac.com too but I lost access to that some time ago and I don’t use what I had in front of the @ anymore anyways.