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MobileMe "push" not working yet?
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I am an existing .mac user. I am not using an iPhone at the moment (long story, lets just say I will have it "fixed" next week, so I am using a Blackberry right now).
I did that MobileMe update (1.1). Synced everything and restarted my computer (I have the wonderful purple iDisk icon now also
). I used my Blackberry to send my .mac account an email. 2 seconds after it was sent, Mail app notified me of the email. I tried it 5 times, each time, it was literally 1-3 seconds before I got it (consequently, my Blackberry hasn't received any of those emails yet).
Seems that it might be working okay. I still need to set it up on my desktop and see how that works, along with contacts (I don't really use calenders).
Too bad my iPhone isn't working for me to test that out, but if it works like how it was just working, I am in love with push email (nobody knows my Blackberry's push email addy, its a temp phone).
I did that MobileMe update (1.1). Synced everything and restarted my computer (I have the wonderful purple iDisk icon now also
). I used my Blackberry to send my .mac account an email. 2 seconds after it was sent, Mail app notified me of the email. I tried it 5 times, each time, it was literally 1-3 seconds before I got it (consequently, my Blackberry hasn't received any of those emails yet).Seems that it might be working okay. I still need to set it up on my desktop and see how that works, along with contacts (I don't really use calenders).
Too bad my iPhone isn't working for me to test that out, but if it works like how it was just working, I am in love with push email (nobody knows my Blackberry's push email addy, its a temp phone).
I had it set up as IMAP on my MBP. Right now, under Account Type it says "MobileMe IMAP".
So I suggest changing to IMAP from whatever you had it on (POP?).
Anyone have the link to the setup page, where it lets you choose whether you have Mac, Mac+iPhone, PC, PC+iPhone? Just wondering if there was anything I missed.
Thanks
Thanks
Disregard what I posted, because I don't think its working for me either.
I checked the settings on Mail and saw that it was set to "check for emails" every 1 minute. I changed that to 1 hour and now I am not getting my emails now, so I guess I just timed my emails perfectly the first time when it was set to 1 minute.
No push for me either, boooooooooooooo!
I checked the settings on Mail and saw that it was set to "check for emails" every 1 minute. I changed that to 1 hour and now I am not getting my emails now, so I guess I just timed my emails perfectly the first time when it was set to 1 minute.
No push for me either, boooooooooooooo!
Spot on, thanks for that
iCal is refusing to sync now, with or without a manual sync. Oh well! Might as well just leave this whole thing for a week or so I think, and see if it's straightened out by then.
Spot on, thanks for that
iCal is refusing to sync now, with or without a manual sync. Oh well! Might as well just leave this whole thing for a week or so I think, and see if it's straightened out by then.
Ahhh, I got it working.. I had to delete the mobile me email account on my phone, recreated it and upon recreating my contacts and cal info showed up on the phone..
Thanks for posting the setup instructions as well!!
I've also had .mac for several years, and as a result I'm not cutting Apple any slack. This is simply par for the course. The push technology was put in place because their previous Sync didn't work. iDisk barely worked to begin with and so far doesn't look any better. I was hoping this upgrade would give me a reason to renew my subscription, but it looks like another Charlie Fox from the dotmac team.
this is really cool. But I had to remove my mobileme account from the mail app to get it all synced.
Okay, here's my issues.
Nothing is syncing automatically.... or is it? What happening is that even though I have MobileMe to sync automatically in System Preferences, it only does it about every thirty minutes, and everytime, I get this dialogue saying this is the first time I'm syncing, do I want to replace all my info on MobileMe, my Mac, or merge them...
Also, iDisk is not mounting upon startup.
Nothing is syncing automatically.... or is it? What happening is that even though I have MobileMe to sync automatically in System Preferences, it only does it about every thirty minutes, and everytime, I get this dialogue saying this is the first time I'm syncing, do I want to replace all my info on MobileMe, my Mac, or merge them...
Also, iDisk is not mounting upon startup.
Powerbook here, no updates for mobileme, plain .Mac still on my system.
Do you need to have iPhone for the system to show mobileme?
Anyone else still on .mac?
Do you need to have iPhone for the system to show mobileme?
Anyone else still on .mac?
I'll just add to this. Basically more of the same, though. Had to manually update to mobileme via link and not software update...push email was working beautifully on my phone v1 this morning while waiting in line for the 3g...now trying it on the 3g and it's not working. No push mail or contacts..haven't tried calendar, but I'm sure I'll get the results. Also had very little luck getting on the actual me.com site. Hopefully this will all be cleared up tomorrow or at least by monday. Just to clarify something for myself though...let's say I add a contact on my iphone and I have Address Book open in front of me on my mac, will I see the change almost instantly? Or do I need to have address book closed and then open it again? Anyone know? Thanks
Same here, and it's an OS update not an iPhone thing.
I suspect they just haven't released the PPC version yet (both of the Intel Macs here have updated, but neither of the Powerbooks)
I hate to suggest it, but maybe it isn't PPC compatible at all?
Seems to be working for me - I received a Push mail this morning at 7:40 AM (most unexpectedly, actually). My contacts, bookmarks and calendar are synced (i.e., I can see them on the phone), but I haven't yet tried to push a new item to the iPhone yet as I know that MobileMe iCal subscriptions aren't working yet, so I haven't rushed to test it on the phone.
The push is a LIE!
As a test of whether it was really pushing changes AS they happened, or just queueing them up to be synced, I deleted a calendar event from iCal on my Macbook, then quit iCal and immediately put the machine to sleep.
The event was still there on the web and on my iPhone!
This is not true push. In true push, an event would have been dispatched to the server the INSTANT I deleted that event.
If my Macbook had remained asleep for the next 12 hours, that event would have persisted in the cloud's copy of the calendar, which could cause bad life scheduling collisions.
The idea was to pay $99 a year and know that the information, wherever I happen to be looking at it, is always up to date and correct. If I can fool it just by putting a computer a computer to sleep immediately after making a change... I can't trust this thing and it is a waste of money.
As a test of whether it was really pushing changes AS they happened, or just queueing them up to be synced, I deleted a calendar event from iCal on my Macbook, then quit iCal and immediately put the machine to sleep.
The event was still there on the web and on my iPhone!
This is not true push. In true push, an event would have been dispatched to the server the INSTANT I deleted that event.
If my Macbook had remained asleep for the next 12 hours, that event would have persisted in the cloud's copy of the calendar, which could cause bad life scheduling collisions.
The idea was to pay $99 a year and know that the information, wherever I happen to be looking at it, is always up to date and correct. If I can fool it just by putting a computer a computer to sleep immediately after making a change... I can't trust this thing and it is a waste of money.
I think you need to give it a little more time!! Does the MobileMe service really seem to be fully functioning to you? It's definitely a bit premature to be calling the push a lie.
Probably because very few people have the proper mac software update from Apple (some people downloaded it early, but it's not the same version). Until you have that, the mac push isn't gonna work. And, MobileMe clearly isn't fully functional yet!
Yes, but the presence of a "Sync auto/30/day/week" menu in the new System Preference shows that this "queued changes sync" thing is part of the design and intended to remain. Such a menu would not be necessary if by design everything was always in sync.