can't use me.com as default email

alexlyons

I've had apple email addresses since it was .mac

When I enter my icloud account, using me me.com email, it defaults to the @mac.com email.

This means that when I go to send emails, it defaults to the mac email address and therefore replies come into that address.

I get a massive amount of spam and nothing else to the mac.com address so everything that comes into that address is routed to a folder and pretty much ignored. me.com is main email address given to people.
It's also a pain if somebody emails me on another account (which is forwarded to the me.com address) and i go to reply, it goes from mac.com and there reply could go unnoticed for a while.

I do have the ability to send from other emails (although not me.com as it will only allow mac.com) by setting up other accounts

Does anyone know how to use icloud with my me.com email and not my mac.com email, even though they're pretty much the same thing?

Sad Professor

I'm not sure I understand you correctly.

You've transferred your old MobileMe/.Mac account over to iCloud, yes?

And you also have another iCloud/@me account associated with the Apple ID you use for purchases?

alexlyons

No. I never said anything about purchases, the "two apple ID" querie is asked loads but not this time!

I have one mobile me account and it's transferred to iCloud. the one account now has 3 email addresses.
Mac.com
Me.com
iCloud.com

No matter which one I enter into my iPhone to set up the account, the account always reverts to the mac.com address in "settings>mail, contacts, calendar".
This means when I go to send an email it defaults to mac.com address. I do not have the option of selecting to send with me.com or iCloud.com.
As stated, Mac.com isn't used as it just gets spam.

Any idea how I can get the me.com address able to send?

Sad Professor

Sorry, Alex, I get ya now. You are talking about aliases. 

I know you can make an alias address default on the Mac by entering that address as the email in account settings. Unfortunately there's no way to do this on iOS at the moment, not with the way iCloud is set up. However, you could probably try to get around it by disabling iCloud email and creating a separate IMAP ("Other") account with the alias as the email address. This would mean manually entering the iCloud mail server settings: imap.mail.me.com, smtp.me.com.

alexlyons

I have a few aliases linked to my account, and they do show up when i choose what address i want to send with.

Never thought of spliting icloud and email. will try now

alexlyons

ok that worked, but the aliases that i created for my me.com address won't show up when i go to choose what address to use...

Sad Professor

Just enter them after the first address in the account settings. Separate each of them using a comma.