I want to use a non-apple email address as an alias

Hi - I want to use a non-apple address as an alias - the address people will see when I use iCloud to manage my email. Is this possible, and if so, how?
Thanks all!
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Unfortunately, that's not possible

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I'm afraid not. While people who started with iTools or MobileMe had their @mac.com/@me.com (and now @icloud.com) address as the ID from the start, and people who open a new Apple ID and iCloud account at the same time from the iCloud preference pane can choose to make the @icloud.com address the ID, if it's the case that your ID is a non-Apple email address you can change it to another non-Apple email address but you cannot change it to your @icloud.com address.
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I hope you can help me out on this, but I have a problem...
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 Cheers, Tom

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