There's no charge for iCloud accounts. Also, you can use a different email alias for your email address and not use the Gmail username with your mail. so you can sign into Mail with your me.com address.
You might check out iCloud's webmail site. It's not completely accessible, but many things can be done within your iCloud account in Mac Mail instead. the only thing you'll really need to do on the website is set your filters if you have devices other than the Mac. If you only have the Mac, it would be easier to set your message rules up locally in Mac Mail. here's the iCloud webmail site: http://www.icloud.com/#mail HtH, teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Feb 15, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > With my latest disaster with gmail, and gmail having so many issues with > Mavericks and Google obviously not planning on improving the accessibility to > their web interface anytime soon, I am thinking about switching from gmail to > iCloud as I already have a me.com email but never use it. A few thoughts as I > know some of you have switched recently, and just want to see if there is > anything I am not thinking of. > > Besides the obvious letting everyone know my email has switched and updating > list memberships and websites with my new email, does anyone know if there is > a way to change your Apple ID as my log in is my gmail user name. > > I use mac mail and have created what I thought were folders in mac mail for > all saved messages, but now understand they are just labels. I had created > these in gmail and noticed I can easily just switch all these folders to > iCloud. Is your iCloud amount of storage for mail based on your iCloud plan? > Is there a better way to save important messages? Until now I have never had > a problem. Does iCloud have an all mail folder like gmail where I might run > in to a problem of stuff getting deleted? The strange thing is I did not > delete any of the messages I lost in all mail I deleted them from the server > in sent mail and since they were messages I had received and labeled you > would have thought they would have stayed in all mail since they were > received and labeled, but for some reason that was not the case. > > > Anything else I should be thinking about when switching mail providers? > Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
