Have a new iCloud account or me.com email address? It’s easy to check your iCloud email in other email clients, you just need to add the right IMAP and SMTP settings. You can use the following IMAP settings:

• Server name: imap.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 993
• Username: example@me.com (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password

For SMTP, you could use Apple SMTP servers OR you can use CloudSMTP which will work with iCloud and any other email address you have! You can use CloudSMTP with for iCloud SMTP on your phone, no problem. All you need to do is sign up here and then enter the following SMTP settings into your email client:

• Server name: relay.cloudsmtp.com
• Port: 587
• TLS: Yes
• Username: Your CloudSMTP username
• Authentication: Plain

Does email from your website go to the spam folder? Would you even know?

If so, we invite you to join CloudSMTP’s Open Beta! Come try out CloudSMTP and send all of your email for free for the rest of September. We won’t charge you a single penny this month.

You can learn more about CloudSMTP’s capabilities here.

Is it a lot of trouble to get started?

No! Getting started with CloudSMTP is super easy, and you can start sending email right away. Check out this screencast to see how easy it is to set up a Ruby on Rails application to send email with CloudSMTP.