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So...I killed-off my Apple ID
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Jul 26, 2014, 11:08 PM
 
Got a new iPad Air this afternoon. Pretty nifty. But, setting it up was really bittersweet.

You see, since the day the Earth cooled, my Apple ID has simply been my online name...Thorzdad. But, to set-up the iPad, it insisted that my Apple ID must now be an email address. It wouldn't let me continue the setup unless I made this change. I've been aware of this change in policy for several years now, but never ran into any problems since I didn't have an iThing or a Mac capable of using iCloud, and, anyway, I think it's a bit dumb to have an email address as a username/ID.

Anyway, I killed-off my single-name ID and have joined the iCloud crowd today.

This iPad Air is really nice, though.
     
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Jul 26, 2014, 11:49 PM
 
This whole AppleID thing is a bit of a cluster&*#.

Username, @me.com, @icloud.com...

I hope we're finally at a point where the ID and Email doesn't change anymore.

-t
     
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Jul 27, 2014, 12:42 AM
 
Congrats and welcome to the collective!

I refuse to use the icloud or me domains, and stick to the .mac legacy... until some shiny feature requires the change, I suppose.

Did you end up with the 16 or 32?
     
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Jul 27, 2014, 06:08 AM
 
".mac legacy"? Pfft. N00b.

iTools, baby.
     
Thorzdad  (op)
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Jul 27, 2014, 07:00 AM
 
Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
".mac legacy"? Pfft. N00b.

iTools, baby.
Yup. Had iTools. Loved 'em.
     
Thorzdad  (op)
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Jul 27, 2014, 07:03 AM
 
Originally Posted by andi*pandi View Post
Congrats and welcome to the collective!

I refuse to use the icloud or me domains, and stick to the .mac legacy... until some shiny feature requires the change, I suppose.

Did you end up with the 16 or 32?
64. wi-fi only.
I didn't think .mac emails existed anymore? I seem to recall my .mac address dying a long time ago.
     
Thorzdad  (op)
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Jul 27, 2014, 07:18 AM
 
One thing ran into when I changed my Apple ID to an email address was that I got an error when I tried to use the address I preferred. It said it was already associated with an Apple ID. Apparently, I have another Apple ID floating around out there, but I have no idea when I would have made it. AFAIK, I've only ever had the ancient single-name ID. Weird.
     
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Jul 27, 2014, 08:50 AM
 
If you had a .mac address, you had an apple ID.
     
Thorzdad  (op)
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Jul 27, 2014, 09:04 AM
 
Right. But I could have sworn Apple killed the .mac email service a few years ago. I know mine stopped working.
     
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Jul 27, 2014, 09:05 AM
 
did you migrate to mobileme?
     
Thorzdad  (op)
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Jul 27, 2014, 10:24 AM
 
No.
     
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Jul 27, 2014, 12:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by Thorzdad View Post
Right. But I could have sworn Apple killed the .mac email service a few years ago. I know mine stopped working.
They just stopped giving out .mac addresses many years ago. The addresses are still active. My [user]@mac.com, [user]@me.com, and [user]@icloud.com mail all gets delivered to my iCloud mail.
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Jul 27, 2014, 01:39 PM
 
Originally Posted by Thorzdad View Post
Right. But I could have sworn Apple killed the .mac email service a few years ago. I know mine stopped working.
Mine still works just fine, and the @mac.com e-mail addresses (I have several aliases) are still my primary addresses. I've also added one or two @me.com aliases in the meantime. Never used @iCloud.com for email at all.

I went the whole migration through iTools —> .mac —> MobileMe —> iCloud, though.
     
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Jul 27, 2014, 02:10 PM
 
Yeah, I skipped the move to MobileMe because it switched to a subscription service.
     
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Jul 28, 2014, 03:19 AM
 
exactly. you had to pay for a mobile me account to convert your .mac into a .me address. if you didn't, then your username is lost forever. (which is stupid, as it's still reserved and no one else can use it). I have been trying to reclaim my original .mac username to use with @icloud (because it was firstnamelastname) but they won't let me because I skipped @me.

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Jul 28, 2014, 01:53 PM
 
Originally Posted by andi*pandi View Post
Congrats and welcome to the collective!

I refuse to use the icloud or me domains, and stick to the .mac legacy... until some shiny feature requires the change, I suppose.

Did you end up with the 16 or 32?
Since I was working OT on a regular basis, I set aside some money and went for the 128 myself
45/47
     
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Jul 28, 2014, 02:21 PM
 
I still use my mac.com email/username exclusively (obtained back in the iTools days). @me.com was stupid and @icloud.com is just as stupid. Thankfully, all 3 go to the same place.

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Jul 29, 2014, 03:59 AM
 
The same thing with the login happened to me, it must have been when I got my iPad mini set up. I can still log in to the iPad/iPhone app store either as just my username or my email address, one gets me to the recent purchases since I got the iPad, the other has the older apps I got on the iPhone. I still use my mac.com email address, I don't like the me.com or icloud.com either.

It'll be much easier if you just comply.
     
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Jul 29, 2014, 06:56 AM
 
.mac is where it is at. How else do people know I support Apple?
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Jul 29, 2014, 07:11 AM
 
Originally Posted by Ω View Post
.mac is where it is at. How else do people know I support Apple?


(I'm actually slightly embarrassed occasionally by the @mac.com address, although that's primarily because I should probably get around to enabling e-mail on my own business domain…)
     
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Jul 29, 2014, 02:08 PM
 
I had an eWorld account.

45/47
     
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Jul 29, 2014, 06:47 PM
 
Winnar!
     
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Jul 30, 2014, 02:56 AM
 
Originally Posted by Thorzdad View Post
Yeah, I skipped the move to MobileMe because it switched to a subscription service.
I'd been paying for .mac already, so it was seamless for me.

Also — just cleaning out my old mailboxes, I realized that I got a free one-year subscription via Apple Sales Training Online back when MobileMe was introduced.
     
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Jul 30, 2014, 02:57 AM
 
Originally Posted by Chongo View Post
I had an eWorld account.

YOU were that guy?

I was on Compuserve back then, and eWorld just didn't make sense to me.
     
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Jul 30, 2014, 05:47 AM
 
Originally Posted by Chongo View Post
I had an eWorld account.

Me/Mac/iCloud too

Damn, that was long ago!

And I connected to the internet with an Apple Geoport Adapter. It was expensive...but when friends wanted to have a faster (or less slower) connection, they had to buy a new modem - I just had to update the Geoport software!
I also was able to make/receive phone calls with the Geoport software - welcome to the 90ies, iOS8 and Yosemite!
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Jul 31, 2014, 05:43 AM
 
I converted my .mac to .me without paying for it. That said I never paid for my .mac. Its one of the very few things Apple ever gave me for free.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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Aug 2, 2014, 08:00 AM
 
hi

i have a [email protected] mail address.

i can send a test mail to [email protected] and i receive it. so i know its active and working
but i would like to start to send mail using the [email protected] mail address.
how do i do it? i tried in mac mail to set it up but defaults to [email protected]

is it impossible to have both mac@com and icloud@com as accounts in mac Mail?

thanks
     
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Aug 2, 2014, 10:43 AM
 
It's the same account, and will go the same place as you've found. Sign into icloud.com > preferences > composing and you can select which outgoing address you want for default, or in each email you can pull down your email address and select between icloud and mac.
     
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Aug 2, 2014, 09:36 PM
 
hi

thanks. that did it.
     
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Aug 3, 2014, 08:45 AM
 
Yep. My primary email is still a .mac account and I love it. Apple aliased all the versions of your .mac email address so whatever you use will still get mail addressed to the other variations.
     
   
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