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Let’s Take All the Geek Talk out of Setting up an iCloud+ Email Domain
This is not as confusing as it looks and I’m here to help!
Apple is now offering simple and just about free (see below) email forwarding from up to five email domains. Unfortunately, Apple and all of the usual tech ‘splainers I looked at have done a poor job of helping the uninitiated in setting this up.
I think I know why. In the olden days, when the web was new, even just getting a domain of your own could be a somewhat daunting process and setting up DNS records for that was much worse. Since then, the process has become as close to blind clicking as it can be, but new things like “spf” and “dkim” have arrived to glower threateningly at those who want to set up email on their new domains.
I suspect that many of the tech folk who might write about this only remember how confusing this all used to be and do not realize there are plenty of left over hurdles for the non-techy people to get over. So that’s what I hope to do here: explain all this in simple terms so that you can accomplish this task by yourself. So, first up, I need you to go read the email related internet standard RFC’s. There are only about twenty of them; it shouldn’t take you more than a day to digest them all.
