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   GeekyGirl
   Administrator

   I'm currently reading, "Take Control of iCloud," and ran across something that I'm worried about.

   In the iCloud compared/contrasted to MobileMe, it says, "iCloud Mail lacks several features found in MobileMe Mail. You can no longer fetch mail fro external POP accounts, nor can you use a POP client to collect your iCloud email. You can't use a From address from another account you own, and you can create only three email aliases instead of five."

   The email account that I've used for over 5 years is Gmail. I receive Gmail in the Mail program on my MBP and on my iPad. I don't remember if Gmail is a POP account or an IMAP one, but now I'm concerned that I won't be able to pull that mail into my devices.

   Is that correct?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Rick DeNatale
   Member

   GMAIL supports both POP and IMAP.

   You can control this with your gmail settings.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   GeekyGirl
   Administrator

   Thanks Rick, so does that mean, that according to the information that I quoted above, that I should have no issues accessing my Gmail account on iOS devices & iCloud?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   GeekyGirl
   Administrator

   Thanks Rick, so does that mean, that according to the information that I quoted above, that I should have no issues accessing my Gmail account on iOS devices & iCloud?

   A few pages later in the book, it says:

   "You need a me.com address to use iCloud Mail. If you have an Apple ID that is an email address but is not a me.com or mac.com email address, you'll need to create a me.com address to use with iCloud. "

   This makes me think, again, that I won't be able to use my Gmail account.

   Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   David Ross
   Administrator

   "that I should have no issues accessing my Gmail account on iOS devices & iCloud?"

   iCloud includes an email account. You don't access other email accounts via iCloud. But you can access most any email account from a Mac or iOS device. I have my iPad and iPhone accessing email accounts from several different domains hosted at Godaddy, a GMail account, several private mail server accounts and two @me.com accounts. The same on my Macs but with multiple email clients on one of them for a few reasons.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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