Using MobileMe address in iCloud

I did not registered my old MobileMe e-mail account in icloud before moving to icloud. Can I still use my old e-mail account or I have to open a new account?

If you did not migrate your MobileMe account to iCloud (at http://me.com/move) before 1 August your account has been closed and the contents deleted.
You can reactivate your @me.com address to use in iCloud - do not create a new iCloud accounts as you won't be able to add this address to it. Just sign in with your @me.com address in System Preferences>iCloud (Lion 10.7.2 minimum required) or Settings>iCloud on an iOS5 device.
You will be able to use the address but you will not be able to recover any emails previously stored on it, nor any files which were stored on your iDisk.
If you had an @mac.com version of the address (as a result of DotMac membership prior to MobileMe) you will not be able to reactivate that.
However, if you did migrate but have simply not signed it in to iCloud the same procedure applies; in this case the contents and any email aliases, will be transferred to the iCloud account. However any files which were in your iDisk are not recoverable.

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    My grandmother never moved her mobileme email address to icloud. We are no longer able to access it and there doesn't appear to be an option to move it over any longer. I called apple directly and the person who answered the phone refused to even transfer me to a department to discuss the problem. Is her email address gone or can it still be recovered?
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  • ICloud will not accept my mobileMe address

    Having moved from MobileMe, I have sorted out Contacts and Addresses (with some heartache)
    I now try to set up iCloud mail. So I go to Preferences>iCloud and check the Mail button.
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    But it says that is already in use....
    So I go back to MobileMe to try to delete my address from there.
    But it says that the address has been moved to iCloud.....
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    So I have moved ALL my mail into On-my-Mac for safekeeping
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    Back to Mac Mail and re-install my old account and it looks like this
    So its an iCloud account .... ? and [email protected] is my old mobile.me address
    So why can I not access it from my iPad, which now wants me to "Create a free @me.com email address to turn on iCloud Mail". If I do that, how do I get my old @me address working on the iPad.
    Really Apple has not excelled itself with this migration...
    Completely confused.....

  • I am attempting to add a new email to my iCloud account.  No matter what I enter it gives error message that I cannot use that address without suggesting alternatives available.  What  do I do?

    I need to delete my primary use email address from iCloud.   I am attempting to set up a new email, but keep getting the error message,  " Cannot use this address".   I have entered dozens of different ideas,  keep getting same error.
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    Hey Jagadish108,
    This article will help you change the email address for your Apple ID. Note that addresses that end in @icloud.com, @me.com or @mac.com may not be changed.
    Change your Apple ID - Apple Support
    Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
    Happy computing,
    Brett L 

  • Where is the feature "Send using External Address" gone?

    Did someone found the MobileMe feature "Send using External Address" in iCloud?

    No, currently there is none. There is only the option to configure iCloud Aliases in the webinterface but no more external adresses and mail servers. So currently no possibility to use the Webmail interface with an external address.
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  • HT4864 Can i use my old email address on ICloud?

    Can i use my old email address on ICloud?

    iCloud mail handles only its own emails - you can't collect mail from other accounts as you could with MobileMe - so all you can do is set up forwarding from other accounts to iCloud. However you can only use the iCloud address as the 'From' address when using its outgoing server, so when you are using your Mac or iPhone you are better off setting up other accounts separately in the Mail app. Only when using iCloud webmail will this then be an issue.

  • How do I set up a second email address in icloud....it opens it in Mobileme??help

    I am trying to add an additional email address and when I do it opens it in mobile me.....not sure what I am doing wrong...should it be @me.com or @mac.com....I thought @mac.com but it does not acknowlege it.....I would think this would be easy....I sure it is and I am just missing something.  HELP
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    If as your signature states you are using 10.6.8 (if it isn't correct please update it to prevent confusion) then you need to set Mail up manually to access an existing iCloud account's email - the method detailed in this page gets round Snow Leopard's tendency to dump you into a MobileMe account:
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    If you have an iCloud account you can add up to three 'email aliases', which are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main address. These can only be @me.com addresses. You do this at http://icloud.com - please see this page:
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  • Migrate expired mobileme email address to icloud alias

    Hi,
    I had a Mobileme family pack and at one point i was using a second email address.
    Later I swapped it to use an address for someone else.
    Now I would like to use that old address as an icloud alias but don't know how.
    Any ideas?

    Thanks for your reply.
    I have also had a chat with apple support and discovered the same thing. If you had a family pack on mobileme and had used sub account @me email addresses and then reassigned them they are in effect held forever out of use too everyone for use with mail. They can however be used as an apple ID. Though I can't work out how despite the instructions below.
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    A: You can re-activate this account, ******@me.com, by signing into iCloud preferences with the username and password to this account. When you turn on mail for that account it will require that you create a new @me email address because this one is inactive and was not active when you set it up with iCloud.
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    A: You can use the email as an Apple Id you just have to use an new @me email address for mail.

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    When I created my .mac address a few years ago I used a name that is not as professional as I like now, when sending mail through my Mail App on my desktop and laptop I use an alternate mac e-mail address, is there any way I can change my iphone mail to be sent by this alias address as well, it is still linked to my MobileMe account just a different alias.
    Thanks

    If you did not migrate your MobileMe account to iCloud (at http://me.com/move) before 1 August your account has been closed and the contents deleted.
    You can reactivate your @me.com address to use in iCloud - do not create a new iCloud accounts as you won't be able to add this address to it. Just sign in with your @me.com address in System Preferences>iCloud (Lion 10.7.2 minimum required) or Settings>iCloud on an iOS5 device.
    You will be able to use the address but you will not be able to recover any emails previously stored on it, nor any files which were stored on your iDisk.
    If you had an @mac.com version of the address (as a result of DotMac membership prior to MobileMe) you will not be able to reactivate that.
    However, if you did migrate but have simply not signed it in to iCloud the same procedure applies; in this case the contents and any email aliases, will be transferred to the iCloud account. However any files which were in your iDisk are not recoverable.

  • MobileMe Email address and iCloud

    Hi,
    I had an MobileMe email address. That account expired. I'm trying to get the same email address with iCloud but it tells me the @me.com address is already taken. Yeah, it's taken by me! How can I reclaim this email. I use the same handle for everything.
    Thank you!

    That account expired
    Can I keep my MobileMe email address once I move to iCloud?
    Only if you have an active MobileMe account when you sign up for iCloud, you can keep your me.com or mac.comemail address and any email aliases you have created and move your MobileMe mail, contacts, and calendars, as well as your bookmarks, to the new service. When you're ready to make the move, go to www.me.com/move.
    From here > Information about the MobileMe transition

  • HT204053 can I use more than one email address on icloud (using iphone and mac)?

    I have an email account which seems to be using icloud, and I want to add another email account so that I can access it via icloud.  Is it possible to have more than one email address on icloud?  I have an iphone 5 and a macbook.

    You can only have one email account for each iCloud account.  You can create up to three alias addresses, but these will still receive email in the current account inbox.  This explains how to create an alias if you want to do this: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2622.
    You can create a second ("secondary") iCloud account on your device by going to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud and entering a different iCloud ID.  This will give you second iCloud email account but it will only be fetch email (not push).  Also, you can only create a maximum of three iCloud accounts on each device so this would use one of your allotted accounts.

  • HT5622 In settings it has a spot to add an e mail address to icloud . What does adding one do ? I haven't finished it by verifying through e mail but my phone keeps saying I am using it for icloudin this phone. Ugh now what ?

    In settings it has a spot to add an e mail address to icloud . What does adding one do ? I haven't finished it by verifying through e mail but my phone keeps saying I am using it for icloudin this phone. Ugh now what ?

    if it's a message coming from your yahoo account, it means that your account has been compromised, not your phone itself. i would suggest changing the password for your email account

  • Can i create additional apple id's using the same email address for using multiple products with iCloud?

    can i create additional apple id's using the same email address for using multiple products with iCloud?

    Hi Anne,
    I'm pretty sure different eMail addies are needed for different Apple IDs.

  • Can I use my newly created iCloud email address as my Apple ID?

    Hey,
    I know there have been loads of post regarding iCloud and account issues. I was wondering if it was possible to use my newly created iCLoud email address as my Apple ID and its primary address. I had a hotmail account as my Apple ID before signing up for iCloud. For me it's purely cosmetic and I want to retire that hotmail address.
    Thanks
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    this has been really bugging me as well, i dont see why we cant do this.
    if you create a new apple id you get the option to use a free icloud email as the apple id, but old users are stuck?

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