.Mac and Mail misbehaving a lot lateley

[srobert]

Hello.

My .Mac email has been acting strangely for the pas few days. After reading some posts on Apple's discussion forums, looks like I'm not alone. It's widespread. Here is a list of the weird things that have been happening:

• Read messages sometimes get remarked as unread
• Deleted messages sometime reappear in inbox
• Some messages disappear from sent folder.
• Some spam mails moved to the junk folder sometime reappear in my inbox, even though they still are tagged as spam.
• and since this morning I can't even login. Mail.app rejects my password and the web interface tells me "Your information could not be displayed" when I try to acces my email.

I've also been getting a lot of spam lately.

No fixes yet.

All status lights for .Mac are green.

Anybody else experienced anything similar?

Edit: support light for Mail has now turned yellow.

.Mac email is currently unavailable for a small number of .Mac customers. All other .Mac services are unaffected.
Last Updated: 6/07/06

 

[mad jew]

.Mac was having issues a few days ago but claims to have them sorted now. I still can't sync one of my machines though, despite using a bevy of troubleshooting techniques.

I don't use .Mac email because I'm impatient.

 

[drlunanerd]

Hello.

My .Mac email has been acting strangely for the pas few days. After reading some posts on Apple's discussion forums, looks like I'm not alone. It's widespread. Here is a list of the weird things that have been happening:

• Read messages sometimes get remarked as unread
• Deleted messages sometime reappear in inbox
• and since this morning I can't even login. Mail.app rejects my password and the web interface tells me "Your information could not be displayed" when I try to acces my email.
• Some messages disappear from sent folder.

I've also been getting a lot of spam lately.

No fixes yet.

All status lights for .Mac are green.

Anybody else experienced anything similar?

Edit: support light for Mail has now turned yellow.

Yep - I've been having the read/unread and deleted email issues, it's been really annoying.

Perversely I'm glad you've posted this - I thought it was another Intel Mac foible!

 

[srobert]

On a sidenote about the SPAM. This guy has come up with a super nice Applescript that will forward the raw source of every message in your Junk folder to spam@mac.com and spam@uce.gov, the Federal Trade Commission's official spam-report mailbox. Following that, the script will delete all messages in the Junk folder.

Link

I still can't sync one of my machines though

Looks like a lot of people are having trouble syncing on the .Mac support forums.

 

[drewzer987]

My mail is down this morning, too. And I've been having those same problems. I'd have thought this would've been fixed by now, it's been a couple weeks!!

 

[mad jew]

Looks like a lot of people are having trouble syncing on the .Mac support forums.

Yeah, which sucks, especially as Apple said it's all meant to be fixed now.

 

[rolfdenver]

I can log in, but still get the "unable to connect" message

This has been happening a LOT for me lately and is extremely inconvenient. I can access my .Mac mail on my home Mac with no problem, but when I use my work computer (Windows XP, Internet Explorer as the only available browser) I get this infuriating message. And there's no button for me to report the problem to .Mac.

I'm paying $99 a year for the privilege of a far smaller email account than gmail provides. The main reason I pay for .Mac is the great webpage tools that are tightly integrated with iWeb. I sure hope Apple will fix this pronto. And longer-run, I hope Apple will make .Mac competitive with Google by either lowering the price or offering even more syncing/integration, or both.