[quote author=“climbforever”]I have not yet been able to access my contacts on MM since the service started. They sync fine between 3 macs and an iPhone.

Try going into the MM System Prefs Pane on your Mac, going to Sync, Advanced, Reset Sync Data and selecting ONLY Addressbook to sync contacts from your Desktop -> TO MobileMe.

I found resetting the sync data like this worked on occasion.

[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]Try going into the MM System Prefs Pane on your Mac, going to Sync, Advanced, Reset Sync Data and selecting ONLY Addressbook to sync contacts from your Desktop -> TO MobileMe. .

Thanks Tommo, worked like a charm. I have tried a couple of times before but at that time no luck.

 

[quote author=“climbforever”]Thanks Tommo, worked like a charm. I have tried a couple of times before but at that time no luck.
 

Oh that’s good news

Its the equivalent of kicking something to make it work - it shouldn’t be necessary, it shouldn’t work, but it often does

I can remember the starter motor in my old Ferrari F355 (ahh happy days) sticking quite often.. I’d have to get out and using an iron bar kept for the purpose behind my seat, open the hood and give it a bang, at which point it would fire up sweetly.

These days, Apple products seem about as reliable as Ferraris, which is to say they’re fantastic when they work, but littered with maddening issues, especially small, annoying ones that seem to inexplicably pop up just when you don’t want them to

I haven’t yet been able to access the web-based MM page (http://www.me.com/mail/) on my iphone.

When I load that address I get diverted to http://www.me.com/iphone_welcome/en/

although push MM e-mail and other syncing works fine most of the time.

Made me laugh when I saw this picture mashup on TUAW .

[quote author=“Tommo_UK”][quote author=“climbforever”]Thanks Tommo, worked like a charm. I have tried a couple of times before but at that time no luck.
 

These days, Apple products seem about as reliable as Ferraris, which is to say they’re fantastic when they work, but littered with maddening issues

 

Nice metafor - I agree completely

(hope my mac wont burn )

[quote author=“gatesofhell”]I haven’t yet been able to access the web-based MM page (http://www.me.com/mail/) on my iphone.
When I load that address I get diverted to http://www.me.com/iphone_welcome/en/
although push MM e-mail and other syncing works fine most of the time.

Why would you want to access the web apps at me.com from your iPhone when the data is already on your iPhone….?

I have today asked Apple for a refund for MM*. I’ll see what their reaction is!

* It’s not Exchange for the rest of us, it’s inability to work with a custom domain name is makes this fundamentally not the case.

[quote author=“Tommo_UK”][quote author=“gatesofhell”]I haven’t yet been able to access the web-based MM page (http://www.me.com/mail/) on my iphone.
When I load that address I get diverted to http://www.me.com/iphone_welcome/en/
although push MM e-mail and other syncing works fine most of the time.

Why would you want to access the web apps at me.com from your iPhone when the data is already on your iPhone….?

Access to web galleries, stuff on idisk etc.  Perhaps that isn’t possible via an iPhone.

[quote author=“sleepygeek”]It was worse than beta, but I’ve been messing about with everything in my own world trying to map a domain name completely to MobileMe (web & mail), so not looking to check sensible behaviour from MobileMe.

Apple said they would give me a refund on my MM account EXCEPT I bought a boxed .Mac package from Amazon, so no dice. But they would in theory, which shows they realise the gravity of the mismatch between how the product was advertised and what it’s really capable of.

Still waiting for a response for the real issue - why MobileMe isn’t Exchange for the rest of us.

BUT

I have managed to find a solution to force iPhone and Mail.app to send mail from your personal domain. Phew. It costs $14.95 one time, but that’s not the end of the world. And there may be ways round that too. Fastmail are pretty good too, so no worries there. Read about it here innit

[quote author=“oranger”]Fastmail are pretty good too, so no worries there.

I’m pretty sure you can do this with Tuffmail too. I’ve used them for a couple of years or so and host the mail servers for two domains there (I did have quite a few more hosted there at one point). At one stage I had .Mac and Tuffmail, and to be honest I really didn’t bother with .Mac mail as Tuffmail was better. I’ve only had one brief outage in all the time I’ve been with them.

Admittedly I’ve not looked into using Tuffmail’s LDAP servers with Apple’s Address Book, but now that my interest is piqued I may have a play with that.

EDIT: The LDAP server on Tuffmail is really quite rudimentary and only offers names and email addresses. I got Address Book to talk to it, but it’s hardly worth the bother.