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HOW TO USE iCLOUD ALIASES TO SEND AND RECEIVE EMAIL

Sometimes it’s useful to have an email address that’s not your primary one. You might want to sign up with a service or use it to subscribe to an email list, and not trust that it won’t be reused and deluged with unwanted mail you can’t unsubscribe from.

Apple lets you set up to three additional email-only identities with iCloud.com, called aliases. That lets you preserve your primary iCloud.com address for whatever purpose you like while having these three alternative identities that you can use to filter email and even delete if you want to abandon the address altogether—not an option with your primary iCloud.com address, which is often the account name for your Apple ID.

I wrote in April 2019 about setting up aliases, which is handled only at iCloud.com. (In brief: Log in, click the Mail icon, click the gear icon, select Preferences, click Accounts, and click Add an Alias.)

The Accounts tab lets you manage aliases by selecting it in the list at left. You can opt to disable an alias, which keeps it associated with your account, but it stops receiving email and cannot be used as a “from” address to send messages. You can also delete it, which frees up a slot if