Does Mobile Me webmail suck for everyone or is it just me? [Archive]

oursfan

Sep 30, 2009, 02:22 PM

Does anyone else have issues with Mobile Me webmail or is it just me? On a scale of 1-10 for usability I would give the webmail feature of Mobile Me a 1. It is constantly crashing or telling me that it can not find the server. It does not send emails that I type sometimes. It never puts the messages that I send in the "sent" folder (I have noticed that this happens with the mail on my iphone sometimes too). It is slowwwwwwww! Does anyone else have these issues? I have had MobileMe services for around 5 years and have never really complained until now because I have generally in the past used the mail client on my mac to do the emailing. I do check my mobile me account from my work PC now through the webmail client.

Please tell me that someone knows a way to speed this up and get this service working better for me.

jbennardo

Sep 30, 2009, 02:29 PM

I'm right there with you. It's constantly timing out and throwing errors like you mentioned. Funny, it runs better on Firefox than Safari for me. :p

Overall, more than the errors it's the speed - I can't stand how slow it is.

oursfan

Sep 30, 2009, 02:32 PM

Funny, it runs better on Firefox than Safari for me. :p

Overall, more than the errors it's the speed - I can't stand how slow it is.

Yeah, I always run firefox on my PC at work. It is a bit better but I would not say that it is even remotely a workable webmail client. I am a huge apple supporter but this crap really does blow. Come on Apple, surely you guys know how much this webmail client stinks.

d21mike

Sep 30, 2009, 03:55 PM

oursfan

Sep 30, 2009, 04:11 PM

You are not alone. Best to use a Mail Client like you said.

You said you have used MM for 5 years. You must be talking about "mac.com" or whatever the name was before MM since MM has not been out that long.

Yeah, I have been using it since it was .Mac. I think they made the switch to MobileMe a few years back. In my opinion, it was a better mail client back then.

jamesarm97

Sep 30, 2009, 04:15 PM

Never had a problem using the Apple mail program, but a friend hates MobileMe (he uses Windows). Constantly getting the "cannot contact server" or server connection lost after writing a long email.

Yeah, I have been using it since it was .Mac. I think they made the switch to MobileMe a few years back. In my opinion, it was a better mail client back then.

I like MobileMe but miss the simple things that got left out like Fonts/Font Sizes. I thought every web email program did that.

MBHockey

Sep 30, 2009, 04:20 PM

Mobile Me's webmail is the sole reason I did not renew my subscription. It is unreliable and extraordinarily slow. I was willing to give them some leeway with the first 3-4 weeks of the transition, but a year later with the same issues is inexcusable.

jbennardo

Sep 30, 2009, 04:31 PM

.... or server connection lost after writing a long email.

+1 This :mad::mad::mad:

The word has not yet been invented to describe how angry I get when this happens.

oursfan

Oct 1, 2009, 11:47 AM

Does anyone know if Apple is working on any fixes to this? Surely they know how crappy this webmail client is and are doing something to fix it. If the cheapest of web hosts can have a decent webmail app, Apple Inc. should be able to come up with a better app.

Sometimes I feel that using snail mail would be an easier process. HAHA There is nothing worse than typing a long email only to find out after you hit the send button that the damn thing will not go through and you lose all that you have typed. And, since it hardly ever puts my sent messages int he "sent" folder, I do not know which ones are going through and which ones are not.

edesignuk

Oct 1, 2009, 11:50 AM

I can't believe people still pay them for this s***...

d21mike

Oct 1, 2009, 12:12 PM

My son still uses MM Web Mail and complains about it all the time. I ask why don't you simply use a Mail Client (which he can at work and home) and his reply is that he likes the way it looks and thinks someday it will get better.

To me, if you have any volume of email you should use a mail client and only use the Web Mail when you have to. Even if it worked it would not be as fast as a dedicated mail client.

My too cents. If it has not gotten better after all this time I would not expect it to get better anytime soon.

oursfan

Oct 1, 2009, 03:18 PM

I can't believe people still pay them for this s***...I use it for the other features as well so it is worth it to me, but if it were solely a dedicated mail app I would not dare pay for it. My gripe is with the mail, every other feature is great.

To me, if you have any volume of email you should use a mail client and only use the Web Mail when you have to. Even if it worked it would not be as fast as a dedicated mail client.
I agree. I do use the mail program on my mac at home, but can not put it on my PC at the office so I am stuck using the webmail client. I have no issues what-so-ever with the mail on the mail program on my mac, just the webmail.

MasterDev

Oct 1, 2009, 03:59 PM

I can't believe people still pay them for this s***...

I only pay for it for the iPhone tracking since I loose my phone way too much. Plus I get some use out of the contact/ect syncing and space for extra crap...

I have never used the webmail before since I have my own. :D

QCassidy352

Oct 2, 2009, 07:49 AM

I can't believe people still pay them for this s***...

I use mm for all its features except mail. I love the contact and calendar sync, the gallery, the iDisk, and of course the hopefully-never-needed find my iPhone. All that stuff is great. But yes, the webmail is horribly slow. If the webmail client were better I'd probably give up gmail, but yeah, it's pretty bad as-is.

drrich2

Oct 3, 2009, 11:37 AM

southerndoc

Oct 3, 2009, 02:24 PM

JuanGuapo

Oct 4, 2009, 11:57 PM

One thing is for sure is that it's a hell of a lot better than it was last year during the MM/.Mac transition. :eek:

I primarily use MobileMe and used to have a lot of problems using it w/ Firefox 2 and IE7. It appears they've done a lot of fine tuning b/c it screams on FF3 but chokes on IE8 in Windows.

My campus Gmail account works fine on anything, but then again it's Gmail. For Webmail, you're hard-pressed to use anything better than Gmail or Yahoo Mail. Webmail is not the strength of MobileMe but I don't believe it is supposed to be--it's very basic yet seems to use a lot of 'overhead', more than Gmail/Yahoo it seems.

medgirl2001

Oct 6, 2009, 06:14 PM

My hospital uses IE6 as well. It's a royal PITA to not be able to access my mail from work. I don't think Apple has any intention of supporting IE6, even though they should (it wouldn't be that hard to throw in a detection tool that would reroute IE6 to a basic version of webmail).

There is no way they will start supporting IE6 these days. And to be fair, IE6 really is awfully antiquated now. But I'm in the same boat as you - that's what we have at work. I have found two ways around it - I was able to put Firefox on my office computer, which works fine. For when I am at other computers, I use Mobile Firefox, which you can put on a jump drive (in my case I use it from a virtual drive I have access to). Ironically, Mobile Firefox, which is an older version of Firefox, works just fine with Mobile Me. That may not be a solution for those who can't use any other program at work, but if you can, you should try it. It's nicer than using Mail2Web, in my opinion.

oursfan

Oct 7, 2009, 09:52 AM

It does not matter what browser I am using. Mobile Me webmail is still crap. Even on Safari it is crap. I primarily use Firefox (Latest version). Is there a way to put a complaint in to apple about the "buggyness" of this. It will prolly be a waste of time doing so, but at least I will have put my 2 cents in.

BothBarsOn

Oct 7, 2009, 10:07 AM

Yup, MM web mail is a hideous POS. How can they get something so (relatively) simple so badly wrong? It's not just a little bit dodgy, it's comprehensively atrocious. I keep thinking that any day now, they'll issue a grovelling apology and announce that everything's been fixed - but I'm beginning to lose hope.

Even though I love the rest of the service, I'll think long and hard about renewal.

jbennardo

Oct 7, 2009, 10:09 AM

It does not matter what browser I am using. Mobile Me webmail is still crap. Even on Safari it is crap.

This is the funniest part... it runs the worst on Safari :rolleyes:

oursfan

Oct 7, 2009, 10:13 AM

This is the funniest part... it runs the worst on Safari :rolleyes:
Yeah, go figure right!

Macsterguy

Oct 7, 2009, 02:23 PM

It obviously isn't what apple meant it to be and until it is I refuse to use it. Local Apple mail all the way...

QCassidy352

Oct 7, 2009, 03:26 PM

Ironically, I wish I could use the web access version at work. My old office computer has IE 6 & I don't have administrator privileges, so I use Web2Mail.com to get my MobileMe e-mail. Since MobileMe won't let me on directly with IE 6.

Richard.

My hospital uses IE6 as well. It's a royal PITA to not be able to access my mail from work. I don't think Apple has any intention of supporting IE6, even though they should (it wouldn't be that hard to throw in a detection tool that would reroute IE6 to a basic version of webmail).

I was in this boat until recently (now we have IE 7! yay! :rolleyes:)

Just do what medgirl2001 said - firefox portable. It's not installed on the computer, so you should be good to go.*

*I take no responsibility if IT has you escorted from the building for this. ;)

EarthDawn

Oct 7, 2009, 05:20 PM

Slow yes,.... but I still like it better then the others... ie: yahoo and gmail

ManWhoCan

Oct 7, 2009, 05:23 PM

Remember the delays getting this thing launched? It was a POS then and not much better now.

hoonu

Oct 7, 2009, 07:07 PM

MM Webmail is a joke. I cant believe I actually paid for this POS.

At this very moment... I have typed out a large email to former business contact and I'm awaiting my attachment to be "uploaded". It has been over 10 mins with the circle of death and I'm starting to get the feeling that the whole email will be lost since there is no way to cancel the uploading.

GFG

miniConvert

Oct 7, 2009, 07:10 PM

Wow I'm glad I'm not the only one.

MobileMe webmail is diabolical. Using it in Safari on my Mac it constantly logs me back out, wont let me send emails until I refresh the main window, and is ridiculously slow.

A very very poor show by Apple.

JuanGuapo

Oct 11, 2009, 11:23 AM

I look at it as "it does what it is designed to do" and nothing more. It's not horrible but isn't great either. I like MM but wish they would do more to enhance its performance, but I did notice it works much better/faster on Safari (Mac or PC) and Chrome on PC, than it does under Firefox (Mac or PC). IE is just plain garbage to begin with so...

plusbryan

Nov 12, 2009, 06:33 PM

If MobileMe webmail were at least halfway usable, I'd be a much happier me.com user - but it's beyond ridiculous. I get server disconnects, "unauthorized user", and "bad response from server" on quite literally on half of the messages I try to send or drag to folders. If it weren't for push, I'd be right back in Google's arms, not sure why I'm paying $99 for crappy webmail that doesn't work.

Dwanep

Nov 12, 2009, 06:52 PM

Why is it always so slow, Apple gets so many things right, I just don't understand how this is not fixed and a cool app. But yes it just sucks.

pandabearjohnso

Nov 17, 2009, 02:51 PM

I agree with oursfan, it was a much better webmail app when it was .mac. It really took a dive during the .me swap. And what's up with .me anyway? Was .narcissist already taken?

I keep holding out b/c someday Apple will sort this out. But I don't really believe that. How can the same company that makes iTunes produce this POS?

I use a PC at work and found IE and Me are completely incompatible. I have been using Safari on the PC for sometime, but just today I uninstalled Safari and loaded Chrome. For some reason Safari kept getting hung up when I installed the latest version of the anti-virus I use on the PC (Kapersky).

Frickin' computers. I really think we were better off without them!

pandabearjohnso

Nov 17, 2009, 02:56 PM

oops, forgot to select e-mail notification! Sorry, new to this forum.

JuanGuapo

Nov 17, 2009, 10:52 PM

There are some ppl who love MM, and probably just as many who hate it.

I still have my account but will not be renewing.... Gmail gives me a lot more reliable service for $99/yr less than Apple does.

Mr Skills

Nov 24, 2009, 09:36 AM

I love the rest of MobileMe, but the Web Mail is dreadful. It is incredibly slow, and if you leave it open for any length of time, it seems to time-out, leading to two annoying scenarios:
1) You go to click on an email in your inbox, and the page refreshes, making you click it again
2) You finish typing a long email, and when you press send it tells you it's lost connection and the email and it disappears (I always command-C my emails before I press send because of this).

I am a freelancer who often works on different computers, and I need the webmail. It drives me nuts. My old GMail account is so snappy and reliable in comparison (although if they could only speed up MM the interface would be fantastic).

antonioanmar

Nov 24, 2009, 01:04 PM

Really i am using it since the begin of the Mobile Me system and never i had problems, but i think that it could be because NEVER i have used it from a PC.
I think that these mail service has been done thinking that you will use always in your own mac or iPhone, with the Mail program, because on this case it works great.
But the webmail used from a PC or also from another Mac is not as good as it could be.

Mr Skills

Nov 26, 2009, 10:45 AM

Really i am using it since the begin of the Mobile Me system and never i had problems, but i think that it could be because NEVER i have used it from a PC.

PC or Mac makes no difference with the WebMail. The slowness/timeout issues occur no matter which operating system or browser you use.

antonioanmar

Nov 26, 2009, 10:53 AM

PC or Mac makes no difference with the WebMail. The slowness/timeout issues occur no matter which operating system or browser you use.

But the webmail used from a PC or also from another Mac is not as good as it could be.

Exactly as i told, using webmail it is slow from PC, Mac or whatever you will use.

iWoz

Nov 26, 2009, 10:54 AM

It is terrible for Apple Standards..

Bryan Bowler

Dec 3, 2009, 11:30 PM

JuanGuapo

Dec 5, 2009, 01:34 AM

I have to agree. I'm a huge Apple fan, but MobileMe email is absolutely terrible. Here's just one problem of many: write an email, save it as a draft, open it back up later and you can't continue working on it. I reported this bug a year ago and it is still there.

I've not been able to replicate this as a bug. Is there something specific to how you are using it?

Drafts was one of the things I happen to think works really well on MM, too.

The only reason I keep renewing Mobile Me is because I like the way it synchs my two iMacs, MacBook, and iPhone.

Agreed. On this alone, it's just barely worth the price you pay for it. I still use the iDisk a whole hell of a lot b/c it saves me a lot of time working between two Macs, or carrying a flash drive to campus.

danno74

Dec 16, 2009, 12:21 AM

Oh yeah, it stinks alright... worst online email app I've ever used. This stinks more than Snotmail. I can't believe I'm paying $119 AU for this GARBAGE every year. Multiple problems, and working on three different Macs. Same issues on all. It's MM, not the Macs.

I only keep it going because everyone has my dot me address and I can't be bothered changing it back to Gmail. Plus, I do like it's syncing between my Mac at home and iPhone.

But for god's sake, why won't Apple fix MM Mail!!????? It doesn't make any sense... it's been like this for the whole year and a bit that I've had it, and we're having the same issues... I mean, how long does it take to FIX something Apple? Seriously?????? There should be a law against this daylight robbery. Doesn't work as advertised.
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