28 Jul
Apple updates MobileMe status after weekend of fixes
After working over the weekend to restore functionality to MobileMe, Apple said on Sunday darkness that nearly half of the users assumed by the ongoing woes plaguing the newly launched online service have e-mail admission single date more.
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About 1 percent of MobileMe’s subscribers had been affected by an e-mail outage, Apple confirmed on Friday. The problem was caused when one of Apple’s mail servers blocked access to users’ MobileMe mail accounts.
By Sunday, Apple said in a post at its MobileMe status page that 40 percent of the affected users now have e-mail attack again along with most of their e-mail history restored.
“We turned on web access to [affected subscribers’] current email yesterday and the feedback has been cautiously positive,” the put reads. “Since then, we’ve restored well stocked email history (minus the approximately 10% of mail received between July 18 and July 22 which may have been lost) and the ability to access email from a Mac, PC and iPhone, to excessively 40% of these users, and expect the remainder to be restored in the next hardly any days.”
Apple adds that e-mail received by users affected through the outage between July 18 and July 22 was placed on its new server with a July 23 date stamp. “If you need the actual date for particular messages you can derive advantage of the ability to view dilatory headers in MobileMe Mail (via Preferences) to peer into the log and find the actual mailing time and date,” the post adds.
MobileMe, the replacement for Apple’s .Mac employment, officially launched July 11. The service is aimed at giving users the ability to simultaneously sync put in the mail, contiguity, and calendar information between computers, iPhones, and other mobile devices.
However, the service has been plagued by problems since launch, a fact Apple acknowledged on July 16 which time it apologized for the rocky transition and extended MobileMe subscriptions by 30 days. However, problems bring forth continued for more users, with Apple vowing to have “people… working 24-7 to improve matters.”
In Sunday’s update on MobileMe service restoration, Apple vowed to post another status report early this week.
