Can I delete my iCloud email account? I signed up with iCloud and I see that there is an @me.com email account associated with my account.  I don't have any interest in using email with iCloud - I use gmail for email.  Is there a way to remove email from my iCloud account all together? 

Perhaps I am being paranoid, but I am afraid there might be security risks from having another email account around that might be used for Apple account change notifications.  Since I never check that account I wouldn't know if something seemed wrong.
It seems to be impossible to get rid of this account.

What I've done is:


Connect to my iCloud account (with my Apple ID, the same for the App Store and others).
Go to Mail.
In Preferences (top right), choose rules…
Add a rule to redirect all emails received at my @me.com address to my main email.


It can take several minutes to work, but I don't lose anything like that.