This is helpful. I had planned to move from gsuite for mail to start, but these op’s points and others mentioned here suggest it’s not ready yet.
Try Fastmail
iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
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Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#102Catch-all addresses are a must have for me now. I allocate unique addresses to every website as these are more robust then using the + operator because they can't be stripped off. I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material. I emailed their privacy officer and didn't even get a reply, but that's OK, if it continues, one sieve rule and…
> I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material. Who? So we can avoid them.
For me, that latest company to have apparently sold my email address was UploadVR.
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#103Catch-all addresses are a must have for me now. I allocate unique addresses to every website as these are more robust then using the + operator because they can't be stripped off. I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material. I emailed their privacy officer and didn't even get a reply, but that's OK, if it continues, one sieve rule and…
How are you hosting email, would you mind sharing your setup?
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#104Catch-all addresses are a must have for me now. I allocate unique addresses to every website as these are more robust then using the + operator because they can't be stripped off. I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material. I emailed their privacy officer and didn't even get a reply, but that's OK, if it continues, one sieve rule and…
> I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material. Who? So we can avoid them.
So far for me:
- Drizly
- Stub Hub
- Trustmark
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm trying to remember any services that Apple has trimmed, and can't seem to come up with any. I'm sure I'm just not remembering. Do you have examples?
Off the top of my head there was Ping, their music social network, and Aperture, the semi-professional photo processing app.
Ping probably shouldn’t have started in the first place, and while I miss the sleek, professional feel of Aperture and its own workflow I’m not sure of any features it had that modern Apple Photos doesn’t have
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#106Catch-all addresses are a must have for me now. I allocate unique addresses to every website as these are more robust then using the + operator because they can't be stripped off. I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material. I emailed their privacy officer and didn't even get a reply, but that's OK, if it continues, one sieve rule and…
> I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material.
Are you using a salt or something along with the company name? Or could we guess the e-mail address for a given company?
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#107I'm optimistic that Apple is working on most of these issues (especially catch-all) right now and this is just representative of their new offering. Like many things I've seen from Apple it will take a release cycle or two (of 1-2 years per cycle) to bring in this arguably basic functionality - as is tradition we'll groan about other issues being held back in favour of fancy new features. I have no doubt they intend…
I would fear that Apple forgets about the feature after a few years and then just drops it. This is not central to their business and Apple trims such things very agressively. I would always buy a domain-email from somebody who has this as their main business, and I would never couple my email to Apple which could lock me out of my account if they think I "behave suspiciously".
Single point of evidence counter to that:
I remember in the early days of the iPhone that it took a couple of years, but eventually I had a smartphone that could gasp copy and paste text ;)
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would fear that Apple forgets about the feature after a few years and then just drops it. This is not central to their business and Apple trims such things very agressively. I would always buy a domain-email from somebody who has this as their main business, and I would never couple my email to Apple which could lock me out of my account if they think I "behave suspiciously".
> I would fear that Apple forgets about the feature after a few years and then just drops it. This is a Google thing to do. Apple seems pretty great at picking and choosing commitments before they launch rather than what you describe here.
Not with online services, they've at least rebranded if not recoded them a few times. mac.com, MobileMe/me.com, icloud.com. It's true that the market is now much more stable, though.
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#109If it's just for custom domain and email, then Infomaniak is yet another choice, on a price to features, unlimited storage (for email) and hosting country (privacy concerns with Apple and US, anyone?!?) ratio solution. I have recently moved my custom domain hosting from a more expensive service, to Infomaniak, and I got the first email address for free (the main from my Google workspace), to which I may add some more…
Gandi (https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/email) is another registrar with free email for each domain with them. It gives you two 3GB mailbox.
Re: iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
#110Catch-all addresses are a must have for me now. I allocate unique addresses to every website as these are more robust then using the + operator because they can't be stripped off. I've already busted one company (I presume selling) my email address to a cloud provider for them to send me marketing material. I emailed their privacy officer and didn't even get a reply, but that's OK, if it continues, one sieve rule and…
Why not use iCloud’s private email feature to generate a new email that forwards to your regular email for these purposes?
No, that’s losing control. Though it’d me nice to have more email providers who support this like Fastmail does (inside their mail client iirc), or even better the way iCloud private mail seems to be doing or duck.com I’ve heard probably does. Though I doubt my provider mailbox.org will even try to do it.