iCloud with IMAP mail?

Question about iCloud. I've set it up with my Mac, iPhone, and iPad for calendar, contacts, and photostream and it works fine - if a bit slow sometimes.

My mail is through a hosting company and is set up with IMAP so I've already had everything syncing between all three devices. I haven't turned on Mail in iCloud since it didn't seem like I needed it. Would it give my any advantage? Would it just screw things up that are already working without it?

Thanks,

David

On 2011-10-27, unfrostedpoptart <> wrote:
> My mail is through a hosting company and is set up with IMAP so I've
> already had everything syncing between all three devices. I haven't
> turned on Mail in iCloud since it didn't seem like I needed it. Would
> it give my any advantage? Would it just screw things up that are
> already working without it?

When I turned on iCloud's Mail syncing on my iPod Touch, it prompted
me to create a "me.com" email account, which I declined (like you,
I use a third party IMAP provider). So apparently mail syncing
through iCloud means using Apple's email service. Probably that's
why it was turned off by default: it recognized I had an existing
IMAP account, so there was nothing meaningful iCloud could do with
it short of changing over to Apple's service.

Matt

Thanks - makes sense.