iCloud Mail is a free email service from Apple. Hence, it’s available on all iOS devices. iCloud Mail offers large storage space, IMAP access, and an elegantly functional web application.
However, icloud.com does not offer labels or other more advanced tools for productivity and for organizing mail; and does not support accessing other email accounts. If you’re using any Apple device, then you will know iCloud. This article presents a review, you will get to know how you can utilize iCloud more effectively.
Pros
- iCloud Mail offers free email accessible via IMAP (easy to set up on Mac, Windows, iOS) as well as on the web.
- The iCloud Mail web interface at icloud.com does not include advertisement.
- Keyboard shortcuts make iCloud Mail on the web efficient to operate.
Cons
- iCloud Mail does not offer labels and search folders; the search options and filters (including the spam filter) could offer more precision.
- You cannot access other email accounts in iCloud Mail on the web; to get iCloud Mail itself, iOS or Mac OS X are required
- iCloud Mail is not accessible via POP.
Introduction to iCloud – Apple Support
https://support.apple.com › guide › icloud › icloud
Learn how you can use iCloud to share and collaborate. Get more storage and features with iCloud+. iCloud+ is Apple’s premium cloud subscription service that
10 iCloud tips and tricks to get more from Apple’s storage …
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First, you need to check that you are in fact backing up your data with iCloud. In your Settings menu, make sure that iCloud Backup service
8 Best iCloud Tips and Tricks to Use It Like a Pro – Guiding Tech
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iCloud is used for taking backups of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac data, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Here are some iCloud tips
How To Use iCloud – Macworld UK
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iCloud is the name Apple gives to its range of cloud-based services, covering areas as diverse as email, contact and calendar syncing,
Features of iCloud
- Firstly, an iCloud account can be set up using OS X and iOS.
- Secondly, iCloud Mails offers free email accounts with up to 5 GB of online storage (shared with calendars, documents, backups, etc.); more space can be purchased.
- Thirdly, creating a new iCloud Mails account is possible using iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) and OS X.
- Fourthly, accessible via IMAP, iCloud Mails is particularly easy to set up in OS X Mail, iPhone, and iPad Mail, and in Outlook; iCloud Mails IMAP also works in most other email programs, of course.
- Also, the iCloud mails web interface at icloud.com resembles a desktop application and is easy to use with the help of dragging and dropping and swift keyboard shortcuts.
- An “Archive” folder and button help keep your inbox trimmed.
- You can search mail in any folder by the sender, the subject, recipient, and the complete message and header text.
- Filters are available to automatically sort messages to folders based on simple criteria, delete them or forward them to another email address.
Also,
- You can also set up iCloud Mail to forward all incoming mail automatically.
- For sending files, iCloud Mails supports traditional attachments as well as Mail Drop, which makes documents up to 5 GB in size available for easy download to all recipients.
- VIP senders (synchronized with OS X Mail) have their messages collected automatically in special views.
- A spam filter finds most junk email, though its precision is not perfect.
- For messages from many mailing lists, iCloud Mails on the web offers an easy unsubscription button.
- Up to three email aliases let you set up alternate identities and addresses for use at icloud.com.
- While on vacation, iCloud Mail’s auto-responder can automatically respond to incoming mails on your behalf.
- The iCloud address book synchronizes with OS X, Outlook, and iOS devices.
Expert Review – iClouds Mail
Apple’s free email service — free with any Apple product that runs OS X or iOS — iCloud Mails is, by comparison, one of the best email service platforms. It’s interface may appear simple but you can really accomplish a lot and access complex functions.
Once you’ve found where to get an iCloud Mails @me.com email address — in the iCloud control panel on your Mac or iOS device —, adding that email account to Outlook, Mac OS X Mail, and iPhone or iPad Mail is a single-click snap.
Since iCloud Mail comes with standard IMAP access, setting it up in most other email programs and on most devices is relatively straightforward as well. POP access is missing from iCloud Mail, though.
iCloud Mail Spam and Archive Folders
iCloud Mails comes with a spam filter, of course, that could be more precise at times but manages to separate out the junk for the most part — no matter the email program you use. Marking messages as spam is a matter of moving them to the “Junk” folder.
Speaking of folders, iCloud Mail also comes with a sensible “Archive” folder to keep mail you want to retain. Email programs that include a button and keyboard shortcut for archiving make keeping the inbox neat and easy to navigate.
iCloud Mails on the Web at icloud.com
On the web at icloud.com, iCloud Mails comes with an “Archive” button, and a keyboard shortcut for the action, too.
A simple set of buttons, dragging and dropping of messages and, most of all, a handy set of key commands make operating iCloud Mail’s other aspects just as easy.
You can compose emails and replies using rich formatting, send big-file attachments using Mail Drop, mark mail as junk, flag it (which synchronizes with most email programs) and file it to custom folders (in addition to “Archive”).
Inside each folder, iCloud Mails offers not the fastest but quite comprehensive search that lets you find messages by sender, subject, recipient, or content. Search operators and search across all folders would be welcome, though.
New messages from the most important senders are easy to find if you make those senders VIPs, for which iCloud Mails automatically creates special searches that show their messages (from the inbox). VIP senders synchronize with OS X Mail.
