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MobileMe's Push Services Detailed, No Mac to Mobile Me 'Push'

I'm pretty disappointed in the service. I thought the email system would be more sophisticated than just 'IMAP'.

I run my own IMAP server at home already. I wanted something that would synchronize with that and do some spam filtering for me so I don't have to keep mail.app running at home all the time to run my mail rules and filtering. If I shut mail.app off, all the junk shows up on my iPod. Server-side spam filtering software is pretty uncommon (and annoyingly difficult to set up on OS X, provided you've found something).

If I leave mail.app on, it falls out of sync with the mail server, and even forcing it to resync doesn't help. I often come home, turn mail off and back on again so the caches on the server and my client are properly updated.

I suppose what I should do is mail apple and tell them that mail.app behaves badly, but I doubt that'll be fixed any time soon.
 
Eric S. said:
I don't know if this is what was meant originally but I have very little data in my calendars/contacts as yet, and sync throws up a warning on the screen whenever it updates because I'm updating more than 5% of the data on my computer. Interestingly, under Windows XP on my Macbook if I go to the MobileMe control panel and select sync options, there's a checkbox to disable this warning. But under MacOS X there is no such option in the MobileMe preferences.

It looks like the only way to get rid of the warning is to populate the calendar/contacts with more info.
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Just go to isync app, then prefs. There's the same preference setting. You can make it any, 5, 25, or 50%.
 
BillyBobBongo said:
Same here, any changes made on MM are seen on my MacBook in 15 to 20 seconds. My AEBS is causing me no problems at all!
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Damn that's great. I wish mine worked. I refuse to spend another day trying to get things to work. I need to work and actually go make money. Not twiddle my time away trying to get a computer to sync. That's what pisses off the technophiles more than anything! Not the cost of the service. Not the fact that you have to sync manually sometimes. But just the fact that were wasting our days away trying to get something to work that just isn't going to work well or consistently until Apple addresses it in some way. They obviously don't know the answer. In the meantime, the $99 is nothing compared to the money I lost piddling away at the freaking computer. Time is money people.
 
Didn't read all the posts....

Changes to iCal on my MB are not reflected on my iPhone, has anyone solved this yet? I haven't read all the posts on here, I know there are a lot of issues though.....

Seems that if I add something to iCal on my iPhone, then items added to iCal on my MB show up. If I don't make any changes on the iPhone, nothing from my MB shows.
 
It seems to drag it's feet when sending from Mac > Cloud > Handheld. The cloud seems to update but then nothing gets pushed onto the Handheld.

What's odd is that initially I wasn't seeing these issues and now I am.

bretm said:
<snip> I need to work and actually go make money. Not twiddle my time away trying to get a computer to sync.<snip>
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Yeah...I can't leave it alone either! ;)
 
I finally got push from MM -> Mac to work.

My network config was a Vonage supplied router (Linksys RTP300) plugged into the cable modem. Time Capsule was set up in bridged mode. I attempted to setup port forwarding for UDP 5353 as suggested earlier, but that didn't work.

I took a WRT54G linksys router that I had previously decommissioned and plugged that directly into the cable modem. I plugged my other two routers (Vonage and Time Capsule) into this. And MM -> Mac push worked. I didn't even have to setup port forwarding for port 5353.

I did notice that my Mac network settings needed to be DHCP and not static. But that could just be that I screwed up the static settings when I was testing.

It looks like my problem was caused by my Vonage supplied router...too bad it took 4 days (and a lot of hours) to figure it out.
 
Announcement just through from Apple, sent to all MobileMe users:

We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped.
Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac, and Gallery went relatively smoothly, the new MobileMe web applications had lots of problems initially. Fortunately we have worked through those problems and the web apps are now up and running.
Another snag we have run into is our use of the word "push" in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe "cloud," changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the cloud and your other devices. So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word "push" until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too.
We want to apologize to our loyal customers and express our appreciation for their patience by giving all current subscribers an automatic 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription free of charge. Your extension will be reflected in your account settings within the next few weeks.
We hope you enjoy your new suite of web applications at me.com, in addition to keeping your iPhone and iPod touch wirelessly in sync with these new web applications and your Mac or PC.
Thank you,
The MobileMe Team
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My guess is it's a relatively long term thing, if they've changed the wording rather than just saying it's broken for now. At least they hint that it's likely to change some time in the future.

Whatever, it's nice to finally have some communication from them - nice gesture also. Still doesn't guarantee I'll get it (no matter what some random guy on the internet thinks he knows about other people), but it's a bit longer to think about it.

The annoying thing is silence, when you just don't know if they're going to acknowledge a problem or not. But when they do finally open their mouths it's often very reassuring.
 
What about the subscriptions?

Will they be fixing the online calendar to accept url subscriptions? I am switching over from G-mail, but will have to re-think Mobile Me if it cannot do what the online calendars do.
 
onemac said:
Will they be fixing the online calendar to accept url subscriptions? I am switching over from G-mail, but will have to re-think Mobile Me if it cannot do what the online calendars do.
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You can publish your calendar (from iCal) to a public webpage. That's as good as it gets right now.
 
What good is that? It will not update my iphone.

Mindflux said:
You can publish your calendar (from iCal) to a public webpage. That's as good as it gets right now.
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I thought you had to use the mobile me calendar to update the phone.
 
RealMonster said:
I'm pretty disappointed in the service. I thought the email system would be more sophisticated than just 'IMAP'.

I run my own IMAP server at home already. I wanted something that would synchronize with that and do some spam filtering for me so I don't have to keep mail.app running at home all the time to run my mail rules and filtering. If I shut mail.app off, all the junk shows up on my iPod. Server-side spam filtering software is pretty uncommon (and annoyingly difficult to set up on OS X, provided you've found something).

If I leave mail.app on, it falls out of sync with the mail server, and even forcing it to resync doesn't help. I often come home, turn mail off and back on again so the caches on the server and my client are properly updated.

I suppose what I should do is mail apple and tell them that mail.app behaves badly, but I doubt that'll be fixed any time soon.
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Agreed. The first few days of MobileMe have been a disaster, imo. The service just wasn't working the first day or two and now are having Push PR trouble (Public Relations that is) with what they promised and delivered

I think MobileMe will be just fine in the future and in fact be an upgrade over .Mac but at the moment I am really getting annoyed at the service

Sent multiple emails to them begging for some help and after a week I have not gotten one email response back.
 
CWallace said:
Before MobileMe, how did you folks sync .Mac, whether it was 10 seconds or 10 hours after you updated something?

You pushed the Sync button.

Ok, so now MobileMe does it for you in most situations. Is it so hard to keep doing it like before for the few situations it still (as yet) not do so?
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It's a problem because we were told via advertising that MobileMe would be instantaneous as opposed to the old status quo, automatic synchronization.
 
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