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.Mac email is down

Peace said:
It's back up.
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Not here it isn't. Still seeing the swirlies and the exclamation point in Mail for my .Mac account.

Again, no matter what type of upgrade(s) they are doing, it shouldn't be this bad. I can understand slow service, but NO service???

Very poor showing on Apple's part. Very poor. :mad:
 

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This is crap. I need my email to do business. What the hell am I paying $100 a year for? I haven't gotten mail since 11am and it's now 7pm. They could've at least done this on the weekend.
 
Out of all the things they are thinking of revamping with .Mac, the notifications on the website must be one of them. For me it's been screwed up for hours and not only did they not tell anyone it was going to be off-line for that period, if you check the website it says everything is fine.

As much as .Mac is usually pretty reliable, I hate that little automatic notification of downtime java thingie on the site. It's never right, so what's the point?

How is this outage with no notification any different than the RIM outages that all the Apple employees were making fun of the other month?

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It looked for a minute there that it was back up, and I was able to send a message from my iPhone. But now it's down again, and Mail.app won't even download any of the messages I've gotten today via .Mac (whereas Webmail and my iPhone did get them).
 
Virgil-TB2 said:
How is this outage with no notification any different than the RIM outages that all the Apple employees were making fun of the other month?

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At least RIM does not take their systems down for maintenance in the middle of the day... Apple seems to think that if its personal email- its ok to have outages... not when your paying for it its not....
 
Thank goodness for this forum. Finally occurred to me to check here. .Mac email isn't working for me, either. In Colorado. Still. 8:27 pm.

Glad I don't really use the .mac account except to get emails from Apple. But I also use Mail to check my "real" (main) email account, so to avoid the irritating nonresponse of the .mac account I figured out how to have it just check my real email and not get all stymied checking the .mac account.

I did pay $$ for the .mac thing a month ago when I bought my iMac and was just thinking it's past time for me to explore it and get my money's worth.

Joke's on me, at least tonight.
 
Virgil-TB2 said:
How is this outage with no notification any different than the RIM outages that all the Apple employees were making fun of the other month?
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When RIM goes down, your BlackBerry ceases to receive mail. BlackBerry's don't go out and check your accounts for new mail. They simply sit there, waiting for a RIM server to connect to them directly and push them new mail to show you. So when RIM goes down (and stops pushing mail), it doesn't matter where you have your email hosted (gmail, .Mac, Yahoo, AOL, your work email, etc), because you're not getting it on your BlackBerry.

When .Mac goes down, your .Mac email is unavailable. If you have other email accounts setup on your device, they're not affected.

The only poking at RIM that I've saw Apple do was point out that their device (the iPhone) doesn't funnel email through a centralized network setup like RIM does. For the iPhone to have an email outage that's the same as a RIM outage, all of AT&T's data network across North America would basically have to go down. I never saw anyone from Apple try to compare RIM to .Mac :confused:
 
I seem to be back up mail app worked now checking iphone. Well iphone .mac works so i guess it is back up. But this house of cards could come crumbling down any minute
 
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