MobileMe

[craptakular]

I can see every one and their dog signing up for a .Mac trial before MobileMe comes out, so they can get an @mac.com email.

I just have!! I dont want know ghey me.com, my e-peen would be so small with a me.com

my little macbook when it arrives is gonna be so pleased. Think im gonna call it oliver.

 

[Luke284]

if i sign up for a .mac trial now, will i get upgraded to a trial of mobileme? as will i get to keep the mac.com and me.com addresses?

 

[AdWright]

Nothing to lose. I've speculatively registered a username

 

[Deleted member 651465]

if i sign up for a .mac trial now, will i get upgraded to a trial of mobileme? as will i get to keep the mac.com and me.com addresses?

On the trial?

Not sure, it's likely the trial would continue in the same fashion, and if you registered you'd get a @mac.com account, but if the trial ends after the introduction of MobileMe expect it to only give you a @me.com address.

You could always buy a .Mac retail box, keep it on the shelf until Mobile Me goes live and see what you want to do.

 

[BallisticJack]

Anyone know if you can use your domain email address instead of a @mac or @me

Been doing a lot of googling on this topic and so far there is no definitive answer...but speculation seems to point to push e-mail being limited to @mac/@me addresses. I really hope this doesn't turn out to be the case 'cause I don't want to have to go down the route of upgrading my domain accounts to Exchange.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I'd say that MobileMe's functionality is going to be limited to Apple's own accounts

 

[BallisticJack]

I'd say that MobileMe's functionality is going to be limited to Apple's own accounts

Which will be a real shame.

What I want to be able to do is set up MobileMe to push e-mail from [email protected] to my iPhone and then reply from my iPhone to that e-mail using [email protected].

The workaround of setting up a mail forwarder to [email protected] (which will then get pushed to my iPhone) and then replying using [email protected] (rather than [email protected]) just ain't gonna cut it as far as I'm concerned.

 

[AdWright]

Which will be a real shame.

What I want to be able to do is set up MobileMe to push e-mail from [email protected] to my iPhone and then reply from my iPhone to that e-mail using [email protected].

The workaround of setting up a mail forwarder to [email protected] (which will then get pushed to my iPhone) and then replying using [email protected] (rather than [email protected]) just ain't gonna cut it as far as I'm concerned.

I'm with you on this one. I really fancy the functionality of Mobile Me, especially the web interface, but I like using my own domain too. Maybe we can use forwarders, use apple's IMAP server and our own SMTP?

 

[TriedandTested]

Costs:

The £59 single user, is that per year of for a lifetime of access to this service?

Anyone know how many licences come in the 'family pack'?

 

[AdWright]

Per year. And 5 IIRC

 

[PardonTheWait]

The family pack for .mac is one user with the full 10gig, then four more users with 2gig each.

MobileMe will be the same, but double everything - so I main user with 20gig, then four more users with 4gig each.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

The family pack for .mac is one user with the full 10gig, then four more users with 2gig each.

MobileMe will be the same, but double everything - so I main user with 20gig, then four more users with 4gig each.

You could always create a single account, then configure 4 different email aliases so replying to emails is done via one account, but at the cost of 1 license.

It won't be to everyone's taste.. but it's viable.