Use iCloud+ Custom Email Domain with Outlook for Windows

Anonymous
2022-10-27T22:44:52+00:00

Hi,

I´ve set up an iCloud+ Custom Email Domain with Apple and I wanted to use the custom domain also on the Outlook App for Windows, where my @icloud.com email address is also set up. The customer email domain works at icloud.com and also via the mail app for apple, I can send and receive mails from and to the domain. After the initial set up via the settings from icloud it got automatically added. The domain works like an "alias" for the @icloud.com email. The incoming mails are received/ and the outgoing emails are in the send folded by icloud.com. I tried to add the email as an additional mail account on Outlook, it did not establish a connection to the server. I tried to change the icloud account information via Outlook; selected iCloud account, then clicked on account settings, then manage profile, and the email account; I tried to change the email to the custom domain there, but received the same issue. Do you have any suggestions how to use the customer iCloud Email Domain on the Outlook App, so I can sent and receive mails from that domain?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-10T06:59:09+00:00

    Exactly, that's what we're concerned about, and that's why I use Mac mail. My wife uses Outlook and puts up with the incomplete support for aliases.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-29T22:37:51+00:00

    https://appleid.apple.com/account/manage

    Go into your iCloud account settings and click on App-Specific Passwords. It will generate a password for you to save. Use that password for the Outlook login.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-27T05:33:41+00:00

    Hi Ernst

    just reading you reply (very helpful thank you)

    Email can be sent from the external domain addresses by using an alias in Outlook. In Mac Mail, the correct email address is automatically determined by the inbox being used. In Outlook, it's necessary to change the sender address manually or the default will be the host iCloud account email address.

    How do you set up the alias? I cant find it in the new Outlook.

    thanks

    Crispin

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-22T03:27:58+00:00

    iCloud uses two types of passwords, one is to access your acccount directly from their web site at icloud.com. However, to access your emails using other applications such as Outlook, you need to create specific passwords, not only for the application itself, but also for each device you want to use. For example if you want to access your iCloud emails such as the original iCloud email "myname(at)icloud.com", or your "custom email" associated with iCloud "myname(at)mydomain.com", and you want to use both a desktop and a laptop, you need to create specific password for each device and for each account: app-specific passwords (https://support.apple.com/HT204397).

    Kind regards,

    Paco

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-24T18:17:57+00:00

    Hello!

    Solution from @Stefan works in Mail app, but no in the new Outlook client.

    Tested in Windows 11.

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