I now use my mac.com email address for the bulk of my online conversations, and I’ve set up my account here accordingly – using mac.com, which is my email client default. However, when I use the iCloud webmail service it sends emails as @icloud.com… and they get bounced by the Freewaytalk server.
For the record, Apple runs mac.com, me.com and icloud.com emails as aliases; they’re the same thing.
I don’t want to change my account here to use icloud.com as it’ll catch me out when I use my regular mail client. Is there any way to put multiple addresses into my account page? Or could the server be told that mac/me/icloud addresses are the same thing?
Unfortunately not at this time. The mailing list part of the system runs under Mailman, and so you’re stuck with the best tech that the 90s ever made. While you could subscribe as all three people, they would never merge, and your mighty “posts answered by ThatKeith” record would be split across all three accounts. Have you tried using the “always use this server” option in the Mail.app? Or does this happen outside of that preference? Can you try setting a custom From: header in your message? That is precisely the header that Mailman uses to figure out who’s sending.
Walter
On Aug 26, 2014, at 5:51 AM, Keith Martin wrote:
I now use my mac.com email address for the bulk of my online conversations, and I’ve set up my account here accordingly – using mac.com, which is my email client default. However, when I use the iCloud webmail service it sends emails as @icloud.com… and they get bounced by the Freewaytalk server.
For the record, Apple runs mac.com, me.com and icloud.com emails as aliases; they’re the same thing.
I don’t want to change my account here to use icloud.com as it’ll catch me out when I use my regular mail client. Is there any way to put multiple addresses into my account page? Or could the server be told that mac/me/icloud addresses are the same thing?
Ah well… I’ll try to stick to posting from my mail client rather than iCloud webmail. I only do that occasionally, anyway.
(BTW I don’t use Mail.app. The last time I tried importing my mail archive to Mail it acted like a sloth on valium even after a week of background indexing. It’s probably a bit better now, but it’s too ‘general purpose’ for me anyway. I’m still in mourning for Eudora, but I’m fairly happy with MailMate so far. No fluff, lots of power.)
My massive post count is history now anyway. When I tried my old vortex address it blanked me. Probably didn’t like being ignored for so long and got in a huff.
