HI Mark, Kevin doesn’t' want to change his apple id but move them so the icloud address is the primary in his mail account, And the me.comm becomes his alias The apple id should't be changed, My apple id's are all alias addresses to my primary mail box. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Tuesday, 25 June 2019 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Apple mail insists upon replying from a dead me.com e-mail address when the original e-mail came to my iCloud.com address. Can't seem to prevent this
Hello Tim, Thank you for the follow up. Yes, I see the problem with my suggestion. Based on my understanding, Apple states that an Apple ID cannot be changed if the ID is an @me.com, @Mac.com or @iCloud.com address. Were Kevin's primary email address a third-party email, then he could, indeed, promote and @me, @Mac, or @iCloud alias to become his new Apple ID. However, once having done that, he would not be able to change that ID, again. The point is that once any Apple-owned domain email is set as an Apple ID, that's it. Actually, now that I think about it; I have done this, myself. This is to say, I removed an alias from one of my Apple accounts and in less than a minute, I was able to use it as an Apple ID. So, assuming this is still the case, Cannot Kevin separate the alias from his old Apple ID and then, simply merge the two IDs into one? I know that Apple does allow this. I believe that this would preserve his purchase history, etc. Mark From: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 8:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Apple mail insists upon replying from a dead me.com e-mail address when the original e-mail came to my iCloud.com address. Can't seem to prevent this Hi mark, At the moment, his primary eMail address for the Apple ID is the older me.com address with the iCloud being an alias of the older original address. Yes, one could delete the alias and create a separate Apple ID for this, but that does two negative things. First, if any purchases are connected to the origianal Apple ID, they would no longer be associated with the iCloud address which is the one he now uses. Second, I believe that the iCloud alias address would be reserved for a period of time even though it has been deleted, thus making it unusable until it is released for use. Sorry, I did send the primary instructions to Kevin off-list already, although he told me that it didn't work for him. Essentially, what I suggested was to promote the iCloud address to be the primary Apple ID instead of the older me.com address. This should make it so that the outgoing messages are definitely coming from the iCloud address. Apple outlines the process here. After this has been done, I believe that the problem should be solved. Although, Kevin mentioned that he was unsuccessful. We will be connecting in a more direct way hopefully tomorrow to see where the problem lies. This process is sound and should work and after 30 days or so, he should be able to delete the older me.com address. It will likely remain unable to be deleted initially as it takes a bit to release the primary address as far as I'm aware. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Jamf Certified Associate Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 24, 2019, at 20:38, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Kevin and Tim, Unless list members have some kind of objection, I would ask that this thread remain, on-list, as I would like to learn of Tim's solution to this problem. Tim, as I see it, cannot Kevin simply remove his iCloud alias from his @me.com Apple ID and turn it into its own, independent, Apple ID? Mark From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Gibbs Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 9:07 AM To: MacVisionaries Subject: Re: Apple mail insists upon replying from a dead me.com e-mail address when the original e-mail came to my iCloud.com address. Can't seem to prevent this Tim, YOu've got it exactly. If you can lend a hand, please let me know best way to contact you privately. You can keep the thread here if you like. thanks in advance, Kevin On Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 5:37:23 PM UTC-5, Kevin Gibbs wrote: Guys, Many years ago, I subscribed to a Reaper mailing list using my [email protected] address. This address is now long dead. I have since unsubscribed and resubscribed to this mailing list using [email protected]. However, even though my e-mails from this list come to my iCloud address, hitting reply automatically populates the sending address as [email protected]. If I don’t happen to remember to click on the outgoing address and change it to [email protected], the mail will be sent to nowhere and it will take a few days for me to realize that the reason I haven’t heard from whatever I asked about is because nobody saw what I wrote. I have tried my best to make sure that [email protected] is toast. It is no longer present as a sender’s e-mail address. But it remains as an option in the list of e-mail addresses I can choose when sending e-mails. In fact, if I am currently highlighting an e-mail that came to my iCloud account, initiating a blank e-mail appears to populate the From field with [email protected], regardless of what e-mail address I actually want in the From field. 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