dotMac becoming MobileMe - Page 2

Satcomer · #9 June 12th, 2008, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by aicul

Satcomer I followed your links and am not sure they relate to what I mentionned in my thread. Maybe I was not clear...

What I would like is to have the .MAC (or whatever account) accept and manage my emails as name@<mydomain>.com in place of <name>@mac.com. If I set up the .MAC web site to reflect my domain name, why should I have an email that is not in line with the domain name?

Then you will have to BUY that advanced capability from a third party like GooDaddy or something along that line. Apple said they ONLY support @Mac.com & Me.com . One should have separate business address from their personal address anyhow.

aicul · #10 June 12th, 2008, 05:08 PM

Point taken, and maybe I am not a specialist.

Is it possible to dissociate web site hosting from email hosting - for the same domain name?

dbrajkovic · #11 June 18th, 2008, 07:16 AM

1) Such "advanced" capabilities such as being able to receive email for a private domain are already being offered for free by Gmail. I have Google send and receive all my email, then use my .Mac account to download from the Google POP. Of course, I don't even have to use .Mac, but I also have all my addresses sync, so it's just easier. And with MobileMe offering push, and calendar via the web, this is definitely the best solution for me.

2) Previous posts wondered how is Apple offering this service. Well, TRUE Mac fans would have read the "Snow Leopard Server" page on Apple.com. Push services to mobile devices, calendar via the web. Combined with the fact that they have a notification service (announced at WWDC), they are obviously using Snow Leopard with this new notification service.

elander · #12 June 18th, 2008, 08:21 AM

Have a look at the attached image...

**Captain Code** · #13 June 18th, 2008, 09:02 PM

Push email and push calendars aren't the same as push notifications. The notifications is just a notification and no data like that new email that just came in. They might have their own custom background processes that receive the notifications and automatically update the email or calendar but I'm not sure quite yet.

limike28 · #14 June 19th, 2008, 11:10 AM

Most of the time when you register a domain the domain registry company (ie GoDaddy) will give you a certain number of mail accounts associated with that. You could forward your @whatever.com email to .Mac so you can use the push service and then you just have to set up your clients to reply to or send mail so that it shows your whatever.com address.

Ferdinand · #15 June 24th, 2008, 03:37 AM

MobileMe is great with all the push features, but sadly they're discontinuing .Mac Bookmarks and iCards. Ok - I can live without bookmarks but iCards are really a loss to me. Does anyone know of an ecards service as good as iCards?

I don't really see why they're discontinuing these services. It doesn't really help getting more customers, so what does it do? Maybe less costs.... who knows?