Apple Details Ongoing MobileMe Upgrades

[DeekinBlooz]

Still have to log in every single time I want to check my web mail. .

The two-week login USED to work for me through my Dell at work, but lately I too have had to login every time. And, MobileMe is slow on Windows Safari for me.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Well...

For the first time in a long time, if ever I've been having problems with my account the last few weeks. Messages seem to take a long time to download. Like once I opened 'mail' and let it sit for a few minutes and went to close it just as a message popped up. I had to re-open it to read it. It was a rather oldish message too.

But right now my system has been sitting over 6 hours trying to empty the trash. Seriously... And my Vista system won't update at all... Are computers reaching the stage of being more trouble than they are worth?

But still, anyone that didn't think that Apple would continuously tinker with mobileme should be surprised that the earth actually revolves around the sun... Now if Apple just tests these tinkers better...

 

[raskar]

I get a lot of Spam, but they go to the Spam folder like they should 😀

not always the case for me : ( !! especially with the banking spam, I often get those in my main mail box! Not a biggy but i just wondered.
cheers

 

[Reborn A Mac]

from the mail screen) I get a severely cut down and very out dated view of my contacts

I have noticed the same since the launch of MobileMe..When I just checked and still do no see Contact Groups listed in the window that appears when creating a new mail message. Having the user to remember and then manually select every single user that is in a Contact Group is just ridiculous.

Last time I spoke to .Mac/MobileMe support they indicated it was not a bug. That would be a feature "enhancement". If you haven't already, visit the MobileMe Feedback Page at http://www.apple.com/feedback/mobileme.html and submit your feature enhancement request / bug report.

Hopefully the more they receive from different users they will actually consider doing something about it.

 

[raskar]

I check my gmail accounts in Mail.app, and what gmail doesn't catch as spam, Mail.app does. I get zero spam in my Inbox.

Just go into gmail settings and turn on the IMAP option. Then add the account to Mail.app, and map the folders accordingly. Easy.

Yeah, I got it setup with mail app as well but not sure if its pop or imap! I can't remember!! I'll check it after work.. but thanks for the tip buddy ;-)

 

[macmyworld]

MobileMe is still terrible. Way too slow for me to use for typical email browsing.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Well, this is interesting...

Both mail and Safari are wedged and won't force quit and I can't stop the empty trash and I can't open the trash either because it's being emptied. Stuck in a logic loop somewhere...

How can I kill the empty trash process? Is there such a thing? This isn't funny. Stuck in a loop and no where to go...

Anyone with any ideas? This is just so weird. Everything else seems to work ok. Oh, and I can't restart because 'processes are still running'. 😱🙁😕

 

[Elloise]

When I just checked and still do no see Contact Groups listed in the window that appears when creating a new mail message. Having the user to remember and then manually select every single user that is in a Contact Group is just ridiculous.

Last time I spoke to .Mac/MobileMe support they indicated it was not a bug. That would be a feature "enhancement".

Thanks for this. I think group support would be great, but my issue is that I get two different sets of contacts presented in Mobileme. My Iphone, Address Book on Macbook and Mobileme contacts are completely in sync and work great. The Mobileme Mail contacts list is very very out of date, and to be honest looks more like a list of remembered addresses rather than contacts.

(Elloise you may need to sync your account with the servers. Maybe you have it set to manual and you haven't synced it since the switch? Just a thought)

Thankyou, I've had a dig around the Mobileme site and can't find a way to do this - Normal syncing is fine between iPhone Contacts and Address Book, it's just the sync between Webmail and webcontacts that is screwed. I don't really want to hijack the thread so if there's something basic I missed maybe you could PM me?

I've submitted a support request on this anyway, so I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again.

 

[SomeTechGuy]

Okay. I still can't sync shared calenders though.

 

[mainstreetmark]

I signed up for the trial in late august.

I was extremely dissatisfied. They sold me on that "over the air" syncing bit, and I thought I could really use it, but in the end, it never ever worked. I think I managed to get my contacts to sync up to the web, but Mail never did. Calendars would sync from the iPhone up to the web every so often, but not on any sort of predictable means.

Here's what I want: Whatever's on the iPhone to be up to date with whatever's on the computer. That's all. If I read a mail on the iPhone, it better get read on the computer as well -- even using POP. I want my family/business to all have a common calendar, that all of our iPhones automatically show new events on, that anyone can add to. Never worked.

If my iPhone's on the same wifi as my computer, there should be some air syncing of this kind of stuff, automatically and transparently.

But, even with the cable, I make due. It works pretty well with a copper connection.

MobileMe? Forget it.

 

[brucku]

Man o man

I can't wait till they fix the problem where once a week ALL of my contacts get deleted from my phone. Sometimes it fixes itself before i get or try to make a phone call so I don't notice, but almost every other week I pick up my phone, unlock it and look at it - and guess what... it has NO CONTACT DATA.


dear apple how freaking hard would it be to put a "check" in that says , removing more than 5 or 10% of a mobile devices contacts might be a server mistake? Jeez.

 

[JNB]

It's not all server side. For example one odd experience with MobileMe comes from the fact that iPhone Mail supports push but OS X Mail does not.

This means that sitting at your Mac with the iPhone in the charger, it is always the phone that beeps about new mail before the (infinitely more powerful) Mac!

Push is oriented towards and designed for mobile platforms. Desktop clients don't need that (nor have it) for a number of reasons.

 

[mfermier]

Ringtones Reset

I'm still not very impressed with the MobileMe's performance, it still feels like I'm paying for a Beta. I am only keeping it because it keeps my calendar and contact synced wirelessly and I can use the calendar webapp at work. But I still have issues (I don't even bother using the Mail account, because Gmail kicks its butt), such as **Ringtones** won't stay attached to my contacts and got reset so often that I just stopped re-establishing them.

 

[Dreamer2go]

I get a lot of Spam, but they go to the Spam folder like they should 😀

I actually forwarded all spam to the trash folder
so I dont get like SPAM (1000) msg everyday (exaggerated) lol

 

[franzmueller]

It's not all server side. For example one odd experience with MobileMe comes from the fact that iPhone Mail supports push but OS X Mail does not.

This means that sitting at your Mac with the iPhone in the charger, it is always the phone that beeps about new mail before the (infinitely more powerful) Mac!

Yeah that´s true ... my iphone advice me of new mail several minutes before my blackbook does.

I´m glad i´m not the only one though 😛

Saludos

 

[bug67]

The two-week login window works for me. Not sure what's wrong with your system.

Based on my own 24 email accounts, and managing multiple email servers and spam filters for over 400 customers, I've found the spam filtering in Apple Mail and on the server to be pretty darn good in comparison to the rest of the filters I've used. Like any analytical filter, it requires some training using your own email.

I'm so happy for you! Must be nice!

Wrong. Both the desktop app and the webapp support a 2-pane view (the 3-pane is default). In Mail.app, just drag the divider to the bottom of the screen. In me.com, go to Mail Preferences... and choose the 2-pane view option. Easy.

Just because I can't see the email opening when I click on it, doesn't mean it's not actually opening.

And ideally, my car would get 1000km on a tank of gas. One day, but not today. There's always room for improvement.

I check my gmail accounts in Mail.app, and what gmail doesn't catch as spam, Mail.app does. I get zero spam in my Inbox.

Just go into gmail settings and turn on the IMAP option. Then add the account to Mail.app, and map the folders accordingly. Easy.

Wow. Again, so happy for you!

I love how those that don't have problems automatically assume those of us that do, must have something "wrong with our system" or we must somehow be operating things "wrongly." 🙄

Apple advertises this stuff as the second coming, however, none of it works ever works as advertised. I should be able to make things work like I want them to, not how Apple thinks I want them to.

 

[DaBrain]

Push is oriented towards and designed for mobile platforms. Desktop clients don't need that (nor have it) for a number of reasons.

Well that's your opinion, BUT I still want it! Period! OH and I really want the ability that use to exist where one can store files on iDisk and then send an email to whomever authorizing them access to the files you tagged.

I think next go around I shall pass if these don't improve and or get implemented. 😱

 

[soup4you2]

I've been a .mac subscriber since they changed it from iDisk to .mac. And these are my last few months, I don't plan to resubscribe because the service is terrible, and not worth the price. .Mac in my opinion was better for the fact it was fast and supported under every browser out there. Also this the service has been up and down like a high school cheerleader since mobileme was released, thats not what you want for a premier pay for email service.

It's gmail for me from now on.

 

[tuinte]

2. Can't select a message (spam) without opening it. I need to be able to select a message and mark it/report it as spam without opening it so "they" don't know I'm a real IP address. Every other email app on the planet has this ability except Apple's Mail and MobileMe web mail.

You can delete it without opening it by clicking the X in the right-hand column.

-
Michael

 

[pavelbure]

i really only wanted .mac for 1 thing, the idisk. i wanted to be able to share dvd images with family. since .mac only has 1gb file size limit upload this does not work for me. mine expires in less than 2 weeks.

 

[dzoolander]

problem with birthday calendar

Even with the mobileme upgrades, has anyone noticed that birthdays still do not show up on the iphone calendar? This is so frustrating as this feature was working well in the first generation iPhone.

 

[mca7]

Send LArge files

Where is the Send large files feature that they still say is "coming soon". While I've grown to like the over air syncing and push email the only new feature I was begging for when mobile me was announced was this one. Come on apple! I'm sick of having to point people to my public folder to share large files! Get on with it!

 

[KALLT]

Too late for me. I canceled my trial account a few days ago and returned to Yahoo. The web application was just too slow for me and the only advantage I had was the remote syncing of my calendar and contacts (it didn't really work with Vista). I never used iDisk at all.

When I'm getting my MacBook, I won't need that remote syncing either, since I sync my iPhone almost every day and have the specific applications on it.

 

[Orng]

I know there are problems, but I find that MobileMe is all around a better service than dotMac, except for the stupid name of course. It works well and I'm happy with it, but if I didn't need the iDisk, I'd probably not consider it worth the expense.

What WOULD make it worth the expense, for me anyway, would be synching with Google Calendar and the ability to EDIT, not just read, iWork docs either through a browser or on the iPhone/iPT. I'd happily save all my iWork docs to the iDisk if only I could edit them sitting at my mom's Vista laptop with Firefox.

I did recently notice that when I delete or move something on my iphone it does it on my webmail as well.

That's actually a feature of IMAP, not exclusive to MobileMe. IMAP is different from POP in that email is synched across devices. Read it here, it's marked as read there. Delete it here, it's deleted everywhere. My first encounter with the feature was my university email account in 2003, where I thought I'd clear a bit of hard drive space by deleting a bunch of emails, thinking they'd be stored safely in the webmail... yeah, fail!

Anyone with any ideas? This is just so weird. Everything else seems to work ok. Oh, and I can't restart because 'processes are still running'. 😱🙁😕

Make sure any docs in open programs are saved. Hold down your power button for six seconds. Then turn it back on.

 

[statbit]

Call me back when calendar subscriptions actually work. It is, perhaps, the only potentially useful feature of MobileMe...