Is an old dot.Mac email address the same as a dot.me or a dot.icloud email address and can anyone define the subtle differences in them?? Inquiring minds need to know. This was spawned from a discussion in Dorchester tonight. If you have a dot.me and a dot iCloud which is better? Why did Apple give us all two? Why are most olks ignoring them and keeping .mac addresses?
I can confirm that they are the same in as far as I have three addresses @mac.com, @me.com and @icloud.com (the part in front of the @ is the same in all three cases) and mail sent to any one of those addresses ends up in what is now called my iCloud inbox.
They may be the same but are not usually recognised as so as usernames on non-Apple sites, so logging in as user.me produces raspberry when should have done so as user.mac!
I suspect that a user name is probably treated the same as a password and is probably case sensitive too so if your user name is one email address, I can't imagine that another email address would ever be accepted as that user name.
Gordon Clyne 