ICloud email address not recognized

I just signed up to iCloud for the first time and entered an @icloud email address. However, when I attempt to add Mail to iCloud in System Preferences, it asks me to create an email address. When I enter the address I already created, it says the address is already taken (probably by me). I'm reluctant to enter a new email address in fear of the confusion of having 2 addresses. What should I do? Thanks. This is happening on both my iMac running 10.7.5, and my MacBook Air running 10.9.

Are you talking about the @icloud email address? If you didn't receive an email from Apple telling you that an @icoud email address has been reserved for you, you may not have access to it yet. They are still in the process of rolling this out and thay may not have gotten to your account yet.

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Why is My iCloud address not recognized. Only the one Apple transferred from my me.com appears?

Are you talking about the @icloud email address? If you didn't receive an email from Apple telling you that an @icoud email address has been reserved for you, you may not have access to it yet. They are still in the process of rolling this out and thay may not have gotten to your account yet.

How do I change just my iCloud email address not my apple ID?

How do I change just my iCloud email address not my apple ID?

You CANNOT change your iCloud email address once it is created and associated to you Apple Id (usually it is another email address). First time you activate iCloud on your device and turn on email setting, you are prompted to create an iCloud email account and after choosing one that is available you are CLEARLY warned that ONCE CREATED YOU iCLOUD EMAIL IT CANNOT BE CHANGED!!!
Fig.1 Warning if desired iCloud email Fig. 2. Warning about creating new iCloud
address is not available email which will be associated to you Apple Id
You have two choices: a) create an alias for that account after you sign in icloud.com using either your apple id or your new created icloud email account (that's what I did) or b) create a new Apple Id (with all the pain it involves)
I typed an incorrect iCloud email address and was linked to my Apple Id and now I have to live with this forever!?
The workaround was to create an alias, but I have the feeling that something is wrong with my Apple Id
All of us might make a petition to apple to allow us to change the 'main' icloud email address. What if I misspelled it!? How difficult can it be?
I hope this be helpful and answer your question.
P.S. In the same way... once you create your Apple Support Communities USERNAME it cannot be changed too!

ICloud Email address not working

I have recently migrated to iCloud from Mobile Me with my two email addresses (Me.com and Mac.com).
A few days ago I notices that I was not receiving emails regularly and as of today I received the following error message while trying to test from a Google mail account :
From:           Mail Delivery Subsystem <[email protected]>
          Subject:           Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
    [email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected] (state 14).
I have not been able to find who to address this issue with Apple Support as no support line or email is directly available.
Does anybody share the same issue or know how to address this ?

Apparenty it worked, I am not getting the error message on the Me.com (50 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias:@me.com (state 14).)
I had tried to deleted the account on the iPhone but not on the Apple
Will wait a little more to se if incoming email are flowing back
Thanks for the tip
I found a lot of similar issues o the discussion forum, butno solution (other than waiting !) : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3373867

Skype name and email address not recognized

Hello,
My problem is that I can't connect to skype after I changed my password.
The new and also the old password are giving errors while logging in.
If I want to retrieve my password skype doesn't know my email address (while I still have old invoices in my mail, so this must be correct). If I want to retrieve with my skypename and my latest ordernumber (2010) this is not recognized.
How can I retrieve my password now?
If anybody can help my I would be much appreciated.
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Jos

Josk wrote:
Hello,
My problem is that I can't connect to skype after I changed my password.
The new and also the old password are giving errors while logging in.
If I want to retrieve my password skype doesn't know my email address (while I still have old invoices in my mail, so this must be correct). If I want to retrieve with my skypename and my latest ordernumber (2010) this is not recognized.
How can I retrieve my password now?
If anybody can help my I would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Jos
if your account has a billing or purchase history in the last 6 months, you can request for a new password without the need of your registered email address. just click the link below;
https://login.skype.com/account/password-automation
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I have not been able to sync my mail with iCloud on my MacBookPro (Lion OS). Everything else has been syncing fine for the past two months, but when I go to System Pref/iCloud/and try to check Mail, it asks me to choose an iCloud email address. When I

I have not been able to sync my mail with iCloud on my MacBookPro (Lion OS). Everything else has been syncing fine for the past two months, but when I go to System Pref/iCloud/and try to check Mail, it asks me to choose an iCloud email address. When I put in my regular @me.com email, it says that address already exists (of course it does - it's mine!) and wants me to choose another one. But I want it to sync with my stuff. What can I do? I haven't been able to find help anywhere online... Thanks!

You should have signed in with that address in the first place, but there is a workaround: go to System preferences>Mail, Contacts@ Calendars and add your @me.com address as an account there.

HT201342 I have set up my iCloud email address on my iPhone and iMac but it does not appear on my iPad. Dies anyone else have the same problem?

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I have updated my iphone 5s to iOS8 but it has my old icloud account, how can i change the icloud email address as i can not get passed this page?? please help :-(

i have updated my iphone 5s to iOS8 but it has my old icloud account, how can i change the icloud email address as i can not get passed this page??
I do not know the log in details and no longer have that icloud email address !!
please help :-(

That's Activation Lock. You will need to remember the Apple ID and password you used to set up the phone.
If you can't remember them, you can go to iforgot.apple.com to try to recover the information.
If you are the original owner of the phone & have proof of purchase, you can try calling Apple to see if they can assist also.
~Lyssa

My iPad, Macbook and Apple TV are all set up with the same iCloud email address. I bought the iPhone 6 and accidentally set the iCloud up with a different email. My phone will not let me change the email address to be the same as my other devices,

My iPad, Macbook and Apple TV are all set up with the same iCloud email address. I bought the iPhone 6 and accidentally set the iCloud up with a different email. My phone will not let me change the email address to be the same as my other devices, it tells me that email is already being used. How do I delete the iPhones iCloud account and reinstall it to match my other devices.

Yes it will, just sign out, then sign back in with the correct address.
Settings>iCloud>Sign Out.

I have a problem. My Apple ID is not my icloud email address my Apple ID is my msn account, but I need to reset the password for my icloud email because I can't remember what it is. How do I do that?

I have a problem. My Apple ID is not my iCloud email, my msn is my Apple ID, but I need to reset the password for my icloud email address because I can't remember what it is. How can do I reset my iCloud emaill password when it's not my Apple ID??

Your iCloud and @icloud.com login ID is an Apple ID. Go to http://appleid.apple.com and sign in with the ID you use to sign into iCloud (you can check this by going to http://www.icloud.com and signing in there).
Click 'Password & Security' in the sidebar and you will be able to change the password.
HOWEVER
Before you do this you must turn off 'Find My iPhone/iPad/iMac' if you have it enabled on any of your devices, otherwise you will land yourself in difficulties.

Can I change my iCloud email address? I do not see a way to edit it.

Can I change my iCloud email address? I do not see a way to edit it.

Jeffrey is correct: but you do have the option to add up to three 'email aliases' which are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main address. Indeed it's a good idea to give out an alias address rather than the master address, in case of spam or other problems: you easily delete an alias without impinging on the behaviour of the rest of the account.
There seem to be problems at the moment about creating aliases, so if you find you can't, give it a couple of days and try again.
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a
You should be aware that, once created, aliases can't be moved to another account, nor turned into full accounts, nor reactivated once deleted.

HT4847 How can I change my iCloud email address without losing all my data and what not???? Please help...

How can I change my iCloud email address without losing all my data and what not???? Please help...

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You can't change it but you can create an alias to use.

HT1688 I've created a sharing album on Photo Stream. I've entered my husbands icloud email address so that I can share it with him but he is not receiving the invitations. Can you please let me know if I am doing something wrong?

I've created an album on Photo Stream and I've added my husbands icloud email address (subscribers) as well as mine (just to test it out) and invitations say that they have been sent but no emails are generated or received. I have checked my emails spam folder just in case but nothing has been received. Please help!

This does not answer my question. I'm doing everything correctly but no email is generating that asks the "subscriber" to be invited to see my album.

HT4847 You have now exceeded your iCloud storage, including an additional amount provided to allow you to continue receiving email. As a result, you will not be able to send or receive new email messages with your iCloud email address until you free up st

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Today I received the same message but have 4.6gb available from a total of 5.0gb. I also received the same message when i first set up my icloud account and icloud was virtually empty. Unfortunately the only way i can see to contact apple is to pay for a telephone call. If anyone knows what is going on i would appreciate knowing.

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If you have given correct info about you ios 6.1.3 - all you need to do is delete account. You will be able to sign in with new one afterwards. Make sure you don't delete any info when you see those prompts.

ICloud email address not recognized

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