Thinking about migrating from Google Mail to iCloud
I am considering switching from google mail to iCloud and am curious about your opinions.
I know there will be a lot of accounts I would have to change my email in, but most of my important accounts already have email addresses from apples „hide my mail“ function, so I am willing to do that work. And for the rest an automatic email forwarding will do.
A few questions are already in my mind, maybe someone can answer them for me:
Will my 2TB iCloud be used for my emails? Or would I need an additional subscription?
Is it possible to migrate all my mails from gmail to iCloud without any third party tools?
And to everyone already using a iCloud email as primary mail account -> What are your experiences so far? Any problems?
If you are already paying for iCloud+, you might want to invest in your own domain and set up "Custom Email Domain". That way if you decided to make another move in the future you won't have to change your e-mail address. I recently switch from Google Apps to iCloud for e-mail, and didn't have to inform anyone.
That’s a thing I already thought about many times. But for me it’s more important being able to throw away an email-address if I don’t need it anymore. As I wrote in another comment here I use apples hide my email in nearly all of my accounts (still working on switching everything). The email that is behind all that doesn’t matter, it just has to have enough space. And that’s what I have with my iCloud subscription.
Another reason I am doing this is being able to tell who exactly leaked your data (if it happens someday). As every account I make gets his unique mail-adress from me, I will then be able to exactly tell where my data was stolen from.
Seconding this. Having your own domain is so worth it for being independent of your email provider alone imo, and depending on which name you get, could even be cheaper than iCloud+ 50GB. Plus of course you can use it for other stuff such as a personal website in the future if you ever get the desire (:
My main email is @me.com but sometimes I’ll use @icloud.com too. It’s handy for websites I want two accounts for as on my end they’re both treated as one email account but on their end I’m two separate people.
I used to have @mac.com too but I lost access to that some time ago and I don’t use what I had in front of the @ anymore anyways.
My main email is @me.com but sometimes I’ll use @icloud.com too. It’s handy for websites I want two accounts for as on my end they’re both treated as one email account but on their end I’m two separate people.
I used to have @mac.com too but I lost access to that some time ago and I don’t use what I had in front of the @ anymore anyways.
Using iCloud mail since 2011, no issues. Yes, mail uses your iCloud storage.
To migrate your emails, open the Mail app on Mac, select all from the Gmail archive and search for "move to other folder" from the menu. Move to iCloud archive.
You can follow the same process for any other folder.
What’s interesting is that Gmail acts the same way with google drive. I once had a woman who hadn’t received an email in over a year because she stuffed her gmail drive full of photos.