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Apple Completes MobileMe Mail Service Restoration
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Yeah, it is the real deal. Currently under ONE membership I have 4 full service website domains running. PHP, My SQL, unlimited subdomains. I love Lunar pages and everything can be modified by the user. No need to call them for every little thing.
In gmail, under settings/forwarding and IMAP, There is a IMAP access box enable it and you are done.
I just got a call from Apple's Corporate Office this morning. I let it go to voicemail though because I was still asleep. Anyways, the guy wanted me to call back at his number because the call was regarding a hand written letter that I had sent to Mr. Jobs concerning MobileMe.
I wonder what they have to say?
I wonder what they have to say?
BAH - need to look at this when I have more time.... My Sprint Palm Centro is not listed on gmail's support setup for imap. I set it up using the common settings and it still does not push to my phone. Google calendar not pushing to my phone either - supposed to some as a text message.
Nope - google not perfect (or my phone stinks). I will have to try my outlook and my mac later.
You people are trying to sway me from Apple......
I will have to play with both when I have more time... Still don't like how Google still says beta, but atleast they are upfront.
that's right -my palm phone has auto sync settings. i had to change it to every 3 hrs as anything less killed the battery quickly and uses up your daytime minutes.
need to find a happy medium.....
well - I've been an existing user since iTools days and i was affected. AND - all my "old emails" are still gone. when contacting the support they said "according to our reports you were not affected. use this link (a support page) for further help".
what!? according to my records all my emails are gone.
what!? according to my records all my emails are gone.
Some of my files appeared corrupt...
I have a couple years of email in my sent box. When I first looked at individual emails the upper list of email and what was shown when highlighted did not match for 2007 and older.
After doing a rebuild of the Sent mail box the individual contents seem to match the information in the list about. The progress indicator is still a big blank ball right now.... and has been for the last 10 minutes.
It might be prudent to rebuild all mail boxes.
Jim
I have a couple years of email in my sent box. When I first looked at individual emails the upper list of email and what was shown when highlighted did not match for 2007 and older.
After doing a rebuild of the Sent mail box the individual contents seem to match the information in the list about. The progress indicator is still a big blank ball right now.... and has been for the last 10 minutes.
It might be prudent to rebuild all mail boxes.
Jim
Working for most now but still small problems all around
It seems that the complete shutdowns are gone though
google is better?
Oh, google is better and never goes down....
Temporary Error (502)
Were sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You wont be able to use your account while these errors last, but dont worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.
Oh, google is better and never goes down....
Temporary Error (502)
Were sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You wont be able to use your account while these errors last, but dont worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.
Google has been more reliable during the MobileMe deployment, but not foolproof. I get the same error message as above from time to time.
you people you people
your going to make a google lover out of me.
and I am supposed to be a mobile me lover
I just figured out how to automatically get my aol email retrieved to gmail, auto deleted off of aol and i can choose where I want my email to look like it came from my gmail or aol...... What I don't like so far - every link (calendar, gmail, photo) opens a new window. of course I can see where that would be an advantage, leave 2 or 3 of them up.
Mobile me - got some splainin to do.....
i think the error I got was my own fault - like I said with everything opening a new window, I noticed I had 2 setting windows opened.
If I can get Google to sync with my mac/pc - even the calendar, looks like mobileme may become mobile waste. Although 20gb over 6 gb is pretty sweet with mobile me.....
decisions decisions.
your going to make a google lover out of me.
and I am supposed to be a mobile me lover I just figured out how to automatically get my aol email retrieved to gmail, auto deleted off of aol and i can choose where I want my email to look like it came from my gmail or aol...... What I don't like so far - every link (calendar, gmail, photo) opens a new window. of course I can see where that would be an advantage, leave 2 or 3 of them up.
Mobile me - got some splainin to do.....
i think the error I got was my own fault - like I said with everything opening a new window, I noticed I had 2 setting windows opened.
If I can get Google to sync with my mac/pc - even the calendar, looks like mobileme may become mobile waste. Although 20gb over 6 gb is pretty sweet with mobile me.....
decisions decisions.
your going to make a google lover out of me.
I just figured out how to automatically get my aol email retrieved to gmail, auto deleted off of aol and i can choose where I want my email to look like it came from my gmail or aol...... What I don't like so far - every link (calendar, gmail, photo) opens a new window. of course I can see where that would be an advantage, leave 2 or 3 of them up.
Mobile me - got some splainin to do.....
i think the error I got was my own fault - like I said with everything opening a new window, I noticed I had 2 setting windows opened.
If I can get Google to sync with my mac/pc - even the calendar, looks like mobileme may become mobile waste. Although 20gb over 6 gb is pretty sweet with mobile me.....
decisions decisions.
This is what you need. Busysync http://www.busymac.com/ Google already has a 2 way sync for the Outlook PC but not mac. Busy sync will close your loop.
Basically Google will operate as your cloud. Outlook and Ical/busy sync will push and pull from it.
thanks, i'll look into that. because in my testing this afternoon....
1. mobile me
a. still not properly syncing events on my PC (dell, outlook 2003) to the
cloud (deleted the cloud).
b. Cloud to Dell worked fine.
2. Google
a. Dell/outlook 2003 - calendar and contact sync (how?)
Update -
Mobile me, still no PC to cloud for contacts/events
Google - found a free add on app called google calendar sync and it works both cloud <->pc with no need to try to manually sync. just set the timer.
looking for a contact sync. considering the busymac.
mobileme days may be limited with me. I was fond of mobile me - but now.... today with mofile me, I started experiencing problems which I did not have before, that people were complaining about. I love my mac and mobile me would have been the perfect solution, now not so sure. they have 71 days before my trial runs out to get it right. in the mean time, looking deeper into google.
Sorry apple, looks like Google may have ya beat on this one
MobileMe would be a nice all in one package, if well - the dang thing worked all the time
mobleme working? not!
no mail for 4 days, nothing just a blank mobleme page. when i go to apple's chat for the 1% outage i am told i am not one of those 1%.
so it looks like apple is only interested in helping a special 1%. i am stuck with nothing. hm.
no mail for 4 days, nothing just a blank mobleme page. when i go to apple's chat for the 1% outage i am told i am not one of those 1%.
so it looks like apple is only interested in helping a special 1%. i am stuck with nothing. hm.
You should try telling that to the Live Chat Representative and/or email them telling them such
At least one of my family pack accounts is out this morning. The main account seems to be connecting OK. 1% indeed. Why can't they get this fixed?
Still no joy
This is not fixed for me. I can't view any email through my safari browser and have been waiting for 30mins for online chat support even though the service says:
A MobileMe Support Representative will be with you in approximately
1 minute
Thanks Apple.
This is not fixed for me. I can't view any email through my safari browser and have been waiting for 30mins for online chat support even though the service says:
A MobileMe Support Representative will be with you in approximately
1 minute
Thanks Apple.
At least one of my family pack accounts is out this morning. The main account seems to be connecting OK. 1% indeed. Why can't they get this fixed?
I am still not widely using mobile me. This morning when i started up my outlook - it told me mobileme was unavailable to try logging on later. then when I tried logging on, it said "sorry you are already logged on". Took me 4 tried to connect.
Citi has been pointing out some of the things I can do with GMAIL/Google. Again I am using my Dell as a guinea pig because I do not want to screw up my mac. So far google looks like the winner Imap email working great, using a free sync app and setting the timer my calendar syncs properly with GMAIL Calendar in both directions (changes on the web shows up in my outlook, changes on my outlook shows up on the web). Nice thing about google calandar is I can havie it email me my daily agenda everymorning and email me and text message me appointment reminders (great if I am out. it just shows the reminder and a copy of the appointment in a text message on my phone).
Since my contacts do not change much and Google, outlook and mac's address book supports vcards - I may not worry about contact syncing that much and just export and import vcards every so often.
citi also pointed out busysync (from busymac) for the syncing of gmail calendars on the mac. Looks like I am going to be downloading that and trying it soon. if it works, then I will pay for it.
I have a feeling mobileme days may be limited with my use. if I can get Google working in all accounts, then I will just move my web to lunar pages like citi pointed out to me. At $9/month that is $108 a year, just a little more than mobileme, and people who used lunar pages for hosting said there are not issues.
So looks to me like mobile me is not a winner - unless they can get it all figured out within 71 days. After that time, I may just cancel after my trial period.
Oh and as an update on my prior posts - finally got everything figured out with my sprint phone connecting to google. I even setup a fetch from google to AOL to grab all email there and bring it to google and delete from the AOL. Now I have one less account to worry about managing. Since MobileMe does not support POP3, I had to do the setup on MobileMe to forward to GMAIL.
So again, Why do we need Mofile Me?
Oh, and the nice thing about Gmail? It supports masking, therefore if you own another email address - you can set it up to send email through that address. all you have to do when composing an email in GMAIL is then select the email address you want to show up on the FROM. this way if you use AOL for junk/marketing and GMAIL for everything else. you can then get rid of your AOL in the future and those marketing/junk emails do not know about your GMAIL account.
Pretty darn neat!!!!
So, if I understand this correctly, downloading a free Google App for calendar sync, plus Google push email will effectively replace MobileMe?
shervieux, are you saying that it costs $9 per month to have Google push mail and calendar sync instead of MobileMe ? I'm not understanding this.
shervieux, are you saying that it costs $9 per month to have Google push mail and calendar sync instead of MobileMe ? I'm not understanding this.
Not exactly, here is the clarification (your first part is correct, second part is a little off):
1. Gmail is free
2. you can configure gmail to get your email on your outlook and phone and even your mac. Google has extensive configurations and help to get it all working how you need. I suggest you looking at it as your needs and system may be different from mine.
3. you can configure gmail calendar to email you your daily agenda, and also send you an email and text message of appointment reminders (kinda like how outlook pops up a window saying you have an appointment xxx from now) - yes the alarm is configurable. - also free. text message and email reminders is great as you can get it on your phone and if you are out, you never miss an appointment. Of course your phone company's test messaging terms still apply.
4. there is a free app you can install on your PC that will sync your gmail calendar with your outlook. works in both directions from PC and from GMAIL cloud. Unlike mobile me, which I still cannot get my appointments from my PC to the cloud (mobile me erases my entire calendar and contacts on the web interface and then when the next sync occurs, wipes out my outlook
). With this free app, your outlook calendar still looks and functions the same.The free calendar sync for PC's for google is at:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=89955
or just google for "google calendar sync" and make sure you go to the google web address.
The draw back with Mobile me is the two separate calendars for work and home. Since the syncing of mobile me does not work right, I have 20 calendars in my deleted items folder that I cannot delete. They show up as calendars and not appointments in my deleted folder.
With the Google one, because it uses your main calendar as outlook was designed to do, it works perfectly.
5. There is a mac version of calendar sync (haven't tried it yet - I had to work 14 hrs two days this week). http://www.busymac.com/
The mac version costs $25 - one time. there is a free 30/day trial available. looks like I will not have time until the weekend to try it myself.
6. There is lunar pages for web hosting that is only $9/month and from what CITI posted - it will work with your iweb.
http://www.lunarpages.com/
7. there are other apps that will sync your gmail contacts (I have not found one from Google yet) with your outlook - however I downloaded 2 of them from other websites and they did not work. I need to keep searching. However if you are like me, and your "main" contacts do not change much - then you could always export and import vcards. GMAIL, Outlook, and Mac's address books supports vcards. If I come across a good contact sync for the PC and MAC for Google - I will let you know.
Like I said in my other posts. I adopted mobile me when it first came out. had a few glitches, but nowhere the number people were posting. Now about 20 days layer (been that long already?), my problems ares still not fixed - and I started having problems that I did not have before
What I am saying is that for the most part you can get most everything for free (or a less money - since you have to buy busysync for the mac), with Google's GMAIL and it works. Thank's for your help CITI. then for the price of Mobile me, you can do your webhosting through lunar pages.
Again Mobile me, would have been a nice all in one - in one installer, but it doesn't work. Google does and has more features.
W580i
I have a W580i too. I can't seem to figure out how to get my mobile me email on it. Can you let me know how you did it? I don't have a Mac, an iPhone or Touch, but I liked the idea of Mobile Me so I am doing the 60 Day trial. I have it configured to sync with my Outlook Calendar and Contacts and can plug phone into PC to get those synced to phone. But I just can't seem to get the email on the phone. The email application wants me to pick the service provider from a list and Mobile Me is not there. I would like to get an iPhone, but I haven't had the W580i very long and want to wait until I am eligible for an upgrade. If I can get my Mobile Me email on my phone, then I may keep the Mobile Me after the free trial.
Thanks!
I have a W580i too. I can't seem to figure out how to get my mobile me email on it. Can you let me know how you did it? I don't have a Mac, an iPhone or Touch, but I liked the idea of Mobile Me so I am doing the 60 Day trial. I have it configured to sync with my Outlook Calendar and Contacts and can plug phone into PC to get those synced to phone. But I just can't seem to get the email on the phone. The email application wants me to pick the service provider from a list and Mobile Me is not there. I would like to get an iPhone, but I haven't had the W580i very long and want to wait until I am eligible for an upgrade. If I can get my Mobile Me email on my phone, then I may keep the Mobile Me after the free trial.
Thanks!