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Me.com Email Addresses Now Working

Interesting...

...it's working for me, and all of my aliases.

However, it's not working for my boyfriend. I try using @me.com instead of his @mac.com address, and it won't allow me to send -- it says I'm using an unknown or illegal alias. :confused:
 
It works for me. I had to login using .mac email address, but I sent one to myself with me.com and it worked. :)
 
also works for me people.

me.com just seems a bit un-apple. they are all about branding, and I just don't see it. I don't mind it really, it just doesnt feel right...
 
Nope.

Doesn't work for me. From my Google account:

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: mikeyrogers@me.com (state 14).
 
I get the same thing:
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: stephenkurtzke@me.com (state 14).

When I try to send it using my .Mac address though, it doesn't even go through the SMTP server. It just comes up with a list of other accounts I should try sending it with.
 
Well, my .me address works, unfortunately it doesn't work for my one alias. I also noticed I wasn't able to change the server from .mac to .me in Mail.
 
At first both my login address and my alias just bounced when sent to @me.com, but after creating a new alias everything — login, old alias, new alias — works just fine.
 
Toe said:
Four score and seven years ago I brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that I am created equal.

Now I am engaged in a great civil war, testing whether me, or any me so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. I am met on a great battle-field of that war. I have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for me who here gave my lives that that me might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that I should do this.

But, in a larger sense, I can not dedicate -- I can not consecrate -- I can not hallow -- this ground. The brave me, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above my poor power to add or detract. I will little note, nor long remember what I say here, but it can never forget what I did here. It is for me the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which I who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for me to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before me -- that from these honored me I take increased devotion to that cause for which I gave the last full measure of devotion -- that I here highly resolve that these me shall not have died in vain -- that this me, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the me, by the me, for the me, shall not perish from the earth.
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Brilliant. :)

Who was dot? Was dot me?
 
I don't like me.com - it's just too lame they could have come up with better one...

Besides, if you ever worked on international/global markets, "me" is usually used for Middle East ...

YOUR_NAME@me.com

Right.

Enjoy your new domain!
 
Not working for me either. Tried earlier and just a few seconds ago, nothing came through except a failed delivery notice.

ozwit said:
I don't like me.com - it's just too lame they could have come up with better one...

Besides, if you ever worked on international/global markets, "me" is usually used for Middle East ...

YOUR_NAME@me.com

Right.

Enjoy your new domain!
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How close minded would you have to be to think that, and if you did and it bothered you, wow, not worth doing business with, as your* not that smart.

*Not you specifically, unless you think that grouping everyone from the Middle East in the same basket is right.
 
Works here. I didn't even have to add an email address and smtp settings to mail to receive it. However I haven't tried sending from the @me.com address.

Personally I'm looking forward to better uptime, a more complete and more responsive web app that integrates address book, calendar, photos, etc., as well as the push direct to my iPhone and constant live syncing between web-mac-phone than I am the name change. I've had .mac since 2000 or 2001 when it first came out as iTools and was included free with OS X. My .mac email has been around for a long time, but I suppose I can start using/giving out the .me. More I'm looking forward to iPhone 2.0, the App store, and possibly a 3G upgrade and not having to sync my phone for anything other than media.

That and my birthday is next week. So all around I can't complain.
 
robert05au said:
I feel so stupid for asking this mainly I wasn't sure about it before.

How do I make an alias for the mail account to check if the .me.com is working for me or not.
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Sign in to your account on the web, go to mail preferences (I think that's it), and aliases.
(or in mail-preferences-accounts you can click on edit alias and it will take you to the mac.com log-in page)
You get up to five aliases with an individual mac membership, which you can then delete and add new ones whenever you want, with 5 total at any time. Good for signing up for things online, then if you start to get too much junk at that address, just delete it and replace it with a new one.
All mail goes to the same inbox.

Don't know if the address still needs to be @mac.com for now when adding the alias?
 
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