MobileMe Mail Massively Missing

[tny]

This is so true. A little while ago I started getting all these undeliverable email alerts in Chinese and noticed a ton of outgoing messages in my sent folder all in Chinese. I contacted Google and they said it was because my password was not strong enough. Huh? So it was my fault? I had already used a strong password and only used that for gmail and someone still hacked it. Since then I do not use gmail for anything confidential.

If you really have a strong password, is very possible that there's a machine on your subnet that is infected with a virus that's doing DPI on all ethernet or wireless traffic looking for authentications. Use TLS or SSL encryption with your email authentication (STARTTLS or SMTPS/IMAPS).

 

[noire anqa]

This is so true. A little while ago I started getting all these undeliverable email alerts in Chinese and noticed a ton of outgoing messages in my sent folder all in Chinese. I contacted Google and they said it was because my password was not strong enough. Huh? So it was my fault? I had already used a strong password and only used that for gmail and someone still hacked it. Since then I do not use gmail for anything confidential.

Interesting, yeah if you really do have a strong password; long, not based on a dictionary word, and with enough numbers and case variation - i'd bet my ass someone is snooping your machine or your network.

Most people seem to think "myPa55w0rd" is a strong password ..

 

[noire anqa]

I'm thinking of asking for a refund if they go free this year. MobileMe has become a running joke in my family because I mention every once in a while that something about MobileMe isn't working for me, and my family can't understand why I don't use Gmail. My excuse is lame. I stubbornly wanted to keep the same e-mail address I've had since December 2000, when I signed up with iTools.

Apple really struggles in the way they approach Internet services, and their support is terrible for MobileMe. Pretty much every time I have had an e-mail interaction with MobileMe or iTunes support, they don't read or understand the e-mail the first time.

Having said that, my MobileMe e-mail today is OK, knock on wood.

For me it's simple, here are the kinds of things no one else offers:

ToDo list syncing, which gCal *still* doesn't do.
FindMyiPhone because i have a 3GS.
Syncing my preferences across all my machines.
Syncing my keychains across all my machines.
Syncing my Safari bookmarks across all my devices.
A public folder online where people can put files ala DropBox, without being forced to sign up for a DropBox account.
AddressBook syncing without messing up my custom fields.

All of those are absolutely essential to me.
There are even more that aren't quite so essential but you get the idea ..

The only thing missing for me from the MobileMe package is speed of access. Otherwise i can't think of a single thing MobileMe doesn't do. I think it's genius, i just wish it was bulletproof.

Fundamentally though, my problem with free services like those offered by google is conceptual. If you're not paying for it then you're not the customer - you're the product being sold.

 

[dergaderg]

no problems

no problems here

 

[quazon]

I'm thinking of asking for a refund if they go free this year. MobileMe has become a running joke in my family because I mention every once in a while that something about MobileMe isn't working for me, and my family can't understand why I don't use Gmail. My excuse is lame. I stubbornly wanted to keep the same e-mail address I've had since December 2000, when I signed up with iTools.

Apple really struggles in the way they approach Internet services, and their support is terrible for MobileMe. Pretty much every time I have had an e-mail interaction with MobileMe or iTunes support, they don't read or understand the e-mail the first time.

Having said that, my MobileMe e-mail today is OK, knock on wood.

Apple's online businesses appear to be run by Infosys. This is the dirty little secret of Apple. Unfortunately this is not common knowledge. You are in fact not dealing with Apple. You are in fact dealing with one of the worst Indian body shops. Droids. Of course they don't "understand" your first email. They get paid by the hour. The horrible customer service is not a technical problem, it is cultural. Why do you think Apple doesn't offer phone support? Can you imagine calling up support and getting the Dell/HP/etc... experience?

After I couldn't access the iTunes store for a week, I decided maybe buying everything from iTunes, or the Mac App store wasn't such a good idea. People have lost access for weeks because of a code change they did that didn't like some addresses. eMail support was of course: "It is the customers fault." "You have an invalid address." Very arrogant. Really? Works with Amazon, Newegg, etc... Even calling Apple only got the same email support. It is like the business units are completely separated. Which tells me the entire store is managed by Infosys. No one in their right mind would buy anything from Infosys. It is only because they think they are dealing with Apple.

Even Indians know that these large body shop companies are detrimental to their own country. They produce no products. They completely rely on American companies for their very existence. Combined they have less revenue than Microsoft. The Chinese/Koreans/Japanese, on the other hand, are taking Apple/Cisco/etc... head on with their own products.

Apple needs to take ownership here and provide real support. Can you imagine putting all of your eMails, Contacts, Media, Files, etc... on the new iCloud and have no phone support? Just emails to India. Are you crazy?

 

[forty2j]

Can anyone tell me what is MobileMe Mail supposed to do?

It:

1) Gives you a @me.com email address.
2) Allows you to pull mail from all your accounts (ISP POP accts, GMail, etc.) into one location so you can view them simultaneously
3) Makes the whole thing available over IMAP so that messages read on one iDoohickey are marked as read on another.

 

[res1233]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8G4)

Worst title for a 1st page article I've ever seen here. Who writes this crap?

After "MobileMe Mail" I'm sure the urge was too tempting for eric to refuse. I would have done the same.