Update on MobileMe 1

Posted by Samuel Williams Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:44:00 GMT

I’ve been doing some more tests, and it isn’t looking good for external mail being sent to your @mac.com/@me.com email. It might be resolved once they bring the services back online, but right now, mail isn’t getting through to my MobileMe email address.

Updated: My MobileMe account just pinged back to life (for how long who knows!?). I’d like to mention that the mail that appeared to be missing is now sitting in my inbox. Therefore, while very slow, it is possible that external emails are not being rejected or dropped silently, as discussed below.

Out of interest, I CCd one of the mails sent via smtp.me.com to my email address @mac.com (i.e. mail from my @me.com address CCd to my @me.com email address). This one would have been routed internally I suspect - we could expect that the connection between smtp.me.com and mail.me.com is shorter than the smtp.joyent.us (or whatever it is) server of my main account.

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS CHILDREN BINARY UNSELECT SORT LANGUAGE IDLE XSENDER X-NETSCAPE XSERVERINFO X-SUN-SORT X-SUN-IMAP X-ANNOTATEMORE X-UNAUTHENTICATE XUM1 AUTH=PLAIN] Messaging Multiplexor (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Jun  5 2008))
. login hidden@mac.com **********
. OK User logged in
. select INBOX
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen $NotJunk $Junk JunkRecorded $Forwarded NotJunk)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen $NotJunk $Junk JunkRecorded $Forwarded NotJunk \*)]  
* 1402 EXISTS
* 1 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 1402]  
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1150871245]  
* OK [UIDNEXT 1648]  
. OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
. fetch 1402 full
* 1402 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) INTERNALDATE "22-Jul-2008 03:34:29 -0700" RFC822.SIZE 1235 ENVELOPE ("Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:34:20 +1200" "Testing sending in MobileMe internally" (("Samuel Williams" NIL "samuel.williams" "mac.com")) ((NIL NIL "samuel.williams" "mac.com")) (("Samuel Williams" NIL "samuel.williams" "mac.com")) (("Samuel Williams" NIL "samuel.williams" "mac.com")) (("Samuel Williams" NIL "samuel.williams" "oriontransfer.co.nz")) NIL NIL "<4196F709-272F-4D1B-A538-E7585E5227C4@mac.com>") BODY ("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("CHARSET" "US-ASCII" "FORMAT" "flowed") NIL NIL "7BIT" 27 1))
. OK Completed

So, the first mail, sent from my smtp.joyent.us didn’t make it through, but the second one sent from smtp.me.com did. I’ll need to do some more research.

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    Ken 24 days later:

    Thanks for your diligence! So far I have access via iPhone to my mobileme sync info and it is all alive and well on my Mac Laptop, but alas, web based authentication is a problem (perhaps because I just joined mobileme today and authentication directories take some time to sync across all the servers involved?). Time will tell. Speed wise though, between my laptop (macbookair) and iPhone, syncs are very fast.

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