Mac.com email addresses getting the boot? Signs point to 'No.'

Finally got @mac.com email to work on iPhone 4 by setting it up as an IMAP email address. However, that doesn't allow my contacts, calendar, notes and find my iPhone to work on Mobileme cloud. Additionally had to add it back as a Mobileme so I could turn on the features that I wanted updated. On the Mobileme account I turned mail off. Not sure if the IMAP address will push my emails to my phone.

A long time user since iTools and it was free. Got new iPhone for Christmas and I cannot send email from my @mac.com. Tried syncing over iTunes and manually configuring IMAP on iPhone 4. Neither worked. Genius at Apple store said it wasn't possible and nothing lasts forever. Very disgusted especially since my Blackberry had no problem with this!

Michael Rose said 6:23PM on 1-23-2011

Daniel, did you read the post carefully? There is nothing stopping you from continuing to use your mac.com address if you follow the steps outlined in the Apple tech note.

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Ok, so the work around is there, but let's remember one thing. Apple had seamless support for Mac.com addresses in place on the iphone up until now. Apple chose to make this more difficult. We pay $150/year for this service. I shouldn't have to select "other" and pursue an alternative process.

I've been slowly giving up on my Mac.com address and now want to cancel my membership altogether. Since there may be a few sites and friends that I have forgotten to tell that I'm switching to gmail I'd like my @mac.com address to just become some free alias attach to my dad's account that he's going to keep open for a while. Does anyone here know if that is possible?

If I can't use my .mac email for another 11 years, I'm dropping the service.

Exactly, 'me' is a reference to myself, as in 'it's all about me, me, me'. And while I am not at all repulsed by myself, I am definitely repulsed by the appearance of narcissism this creates, so I hope mac.com lives happily ever after.

I have had a couple of @mac.com addresses from day one. I have added aliases and been forced to use the @me.com on some of them. I guess Apple thinks the added branding awareness from the @mac.com is of less value since they make more money off their non-mac products. I have a friend who has to use my @me.com addresses cause for some reason the DNS server his mail client uses doesn't think the @mac.com is a valid address! I always have to put a special Reply to: address when I email him. I will be one of those people who think hard about dropping Mobile Me if Apple makes me use only the @me.com address. I already use the faster Dropbox for storage and can park my websites easily on GoDaddy so the need for MobileMe is only cause I'm too lazy to change.

I used to work for an ISP and this is par for the course.

They changes their domain three times and each time they let users use the old address for a while and eventually forced a switch to the new domain.

Apple appears to be in the process of doing this. Until recently when i used "Mobileme" webmail I could type in my username without the domain attached upon login.

Now unless I type the full address name@mac.com it is changed to name@me.com and it does not authenticate.

Apple changing the IOS to only allow @me.com for Mobileme is another indicator.

like many of the other commenters, I dislike the domain me.com as it does remind me of "Windows ME" more commonly referred to as "Windows, me".

I also dilike the name of the service "Mobileme". When it was announced I reactivated my .Mac account to ensure my address would stay @mac.com.

I was already planning on renewing but it did hasten my resolve. Additionally, I was unaware at the time that the majority of the services provided by the .Mac account were going to be removed under Mobileme.

Now the only reason I keep my Mobileme account is to keep my @mac.com email address.

If they force a change to @me.com, I like others who have commented will discontinue my Mobileme account.

Changing your email address is a pain. I have had to do it 5 times so far. And not all of the web services you use allow you to update your e-mail address, including the commenting system on TUAW.

What is wrong with the company that continues to make billions and trounce everyone else make .mac as "safe" to use as .gmail? I continue to worry that one day I won't have my .mac account, (either by choice, I no longer wish to fund the account, or by them deciding to oust it by the next best thing.)

As for my gmail account, at least I know—at the moment—that they won't be charging for it and no matter what ISP I use it will still be there. Not true of either my ISP or .mac, or even .me for that matter!

I wish they'd just bring back mac.com for everyone...