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Me.com Email Addresses Now Working

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If you are a .Mac subscriber, Apple appears to have activated the corresponding @me.com email addresses. If your email address was username@mac.com previously, you can now use username@me.com and emails should arrive in your .Mac mailbox. In the near future, Apple will be migrating all the email services over to Me.com, but users will be able to keep their @mac.com email addresses:
Yes. In addition to your mac.com email address, you will also get an address at me.com with the same username when MobileMe is available. For example, if your current email is emily_parker@mac.com, you will get emily_parker@me.com. You can send from whichever address you choose. The choice is yours. You will still receive email sent to your mac.com address so you won’t miss any emails.
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Apple has also published Frequently Asked Questions about the .Mac to MobileMe transition.

The @me.com transition is part of Apple's shift to MobileMe, a new web-based service that offers "desktop class" email, calendar and address book functionality. MobileMe is set to officially launch in early July.

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cms2 said:
It's still a stupid name, though. spit@me.com, look@me.com, pissed@me.com....... :mad:

Why couldn't Apple just revamp .Mac? The name wasn't the shortcoming... :rolleyes:
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Because there are going to be iPhone and PC users who don't have a Mac that will be using this service. Makes no sense for them to have a @mac.com email address.

You can still use @mac.com yourself if you like.

arn
 
I like me.com

I mean I'll probably use mac.com still, but having this me.com feels more personalized?

Now, say you sign up after the switch, do you get a .mac address?
 
arn said:
Because there are going to be iPhone and PC users who don't have a Mac that will be using this service. Makes no sense for them to have a @mac.com email address.

You can still use @mac.com yourself if you like.

arn
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Fair enough. I'm just a curmudgeon, I guess. :p
 
The question is can you still use .mac if you buy a new MobileMe account.

I dont like the .me
 
@me.com doesn't appear to work for me I sent a test email to my mac address but with @me.com and I got this email back


Code: 
The original message was received at Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:35:55 -0400 (EDT)
from root@localhost


*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery.  The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered.  The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to the e-mail
administrator or Postmaster at that destination.

--AOL Postmaster



  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<******@me.com>
   (reason: 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: *****@me.com)

  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to smtp-mx001.me.com.:
DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: ******@me.com
550 5.1.1 <****@me.com>... User unknown
<<< 554 5.5.0 No recipients have been specified.
Final-Recipient: RFC822; *****@me.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; smtp-mx001.me.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: ****@me.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:38:17 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from *******@digital-mayhem.biz
   by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.4.) id v.c26.39b8c007 (37107)
    for <******@me.com>; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:35:55 -0400 (EDT)
Return-Path: <******@Digital-Mayhem.biz>
Received: from [192.168.1.5] (office.digital-mayhem.biz [24.234.147.12]) by cia-db08.mx.aol.com (v121.5) with ESMTP id MAILCIADB085-90f34866cada6b; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:35:55 -0400
Message-Id: <CEB4AD67-CCB9-4643-AED6-1D5A624F2B7E@Digital-Mayhem.biz>
From: Steve <*****@Digital-Mayhem.biz>
To: *****@me.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924)
Subject: test
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:35:53 -0700
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924)
X-AOL-IP: 24.234.147.12
X-Spam-Flag:NO
 
I could care less, as long as i can get and send my messages. Hopefully Apple will just keep this service working 24/7 unlike the .Mac accounts of yore.

ANd hopefully we get that sweet simple web based app experience so that I can cancel my other services that complement and work better than my current .Mac counterparts.
 
Maybe iPhone 2.0 software will come sooner than July 11th... (or maybe july 11 is 'early july').

From MobileMe FAQ:

What will I need for my iPhone or iPod touch to use MobileMe?
You will need to update to software version 2.0 or later to enable push mail, push contacts, push calendar, and push bookmarks. This software update will be available when MobileMe launches.
 
Small White Car said:
No, .Mac was pretty dumb. Everyone thinks you work at Apple.

Ok, that's kind of funny, but it gets old. I never used my .Mac address because of that.

@me isn't going to have that problem.
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Wonder why :apple: never used username@mm.com for mobile me abbreviation purposes. Why username@me.com, it just leave too much for ridiculing purposes.

And no it does not get tiring, its similar how many people find the noise of flatulence amusing. For a minority maybe.

Stupid move on :apple: part, they could have replaced the username@mac.com for somethings better.

I do agree that people use to think you worked for :apple: or some sort of group with the @mac naming scheme.
 
Bad

And this is why I don't like .mac and other email addresses. I hate it when the company up and decides to change the address. Verizon customers are going through that right now in our area. This is very disruptive for people.

The solution is to own your own domain name. $9/yr. Cheaper than .Mac by far. Add a web host shared account on that for another few dollars a year and you have far more power and stability. Then you don't have Apple all of a sudden changing your email address which means notifying all your friends and customers, printing new brochures, new business cards, updating logins, etc.

Apple is doing their .Mac customers a huge disservice.
 
It is not working for my email, either:

Code: 
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host smtp-mx001.me.com[17.148.20.81] said: 550
   5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: example@me.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

my me.com addy works!
 
pubwvj said:
Then you don't have Apple all of a sudden changing your email address which means notifying all your friends and customers, printing new brochures, new business cards, updating logins, etc.
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Your email address has not changed. It is still @mac.com

arn
 
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