Changing the Default Email Account in Mail for Mac Even after setting this you can continue to switch mail addresses easily in compositions. To be clear, this does not disable the other email accounts or disallow their use in Mail app, it simply sets the preferred address to be the default for mail. That includes new mail compositions created from within Mail.app and also elsewhere in Mac OS X, like a mailto link in a web browser or another app. This step is necessary because you’ll have to verify that you, in fact, own the domain and its associated email address.What this is going to do is set the default email account for any new email message composition in the Mail app. The iCloud website then took me to a page where I had to enter my domain name and an existing email address I was already using with that domain. I don’t hate my family and wouldn’t force them to test this functionality right now, so I picked the first option.

But because I did it… for science, I wanted to share a few details on how it went.Īfter I clicked the link above, I was presented with a screen that allowed me to choose whether I wanted to set up a custom email domain just for me or for me and my family. I would advise against switching your primary custom email address to iCloud at the moment – especially if your custom domain is used as the primary login for your Apple ID. Given the beta nature of this feature, I am not recommending you try this with your primary email address right now I set it up with a secondary email address I barely used before.

This is the direct link to the settings page it was working last night, but it seems to be having some issues today.Ĭustom domains in iCloud Mail is a feature Apple announced for the “rebranded” iCloud+ service at WWDC, which I’ve been curious to try for two reasons: I have a personal domain laying around I can use to test this, and iCloud Mail – unlike Gmail – supports proper push notifications on iOS. Following a tip by one of our members in the Club MacStories+ Discord server last night (if you haven’t joined yet, now’s a great time to do so), I came across the settings page on the website to configure a custom domain and email address with iCloud Mail.

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