Create an email spam defence
Seeing as most modern services like to collect as much data as possible on their customers for marketing purposes, your Mail inbox will soon fill up with junk emails. The solution is to create an alias.
1
Go to Settings
In icloud.com, click on ‘Mail’ to load your inbox and then click on the Settings (cog) icon in the lower-left corner of the interface to access the iCloud Mail actions.
2
Open Preferences
From the menu, choose ‘Preferences’ to bring up a new window and then click on the ‘Accounts’ tab at the top. Now click on the ‘Add an alias’ option in the left column.
3
Create an alias
Now add the name of your alias iCloud Mail address, give it a label and save it by clicking ‘OK’ and ‘Done’. You can then supply the alias address to newsletters, etc.