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Apple updates .Mac webmail
There's a new .Mac webmail in town and it's looking pretty. It looks like Mail. It feels like Mail. It must be a web-based version of Mail! Lots of trendy Web 2.0 goodness like drag & drop, integrated Address Book, familiar 3-pane viewing, message previews, Quick Reply, keyboard shortcuts ala Gmail, smart refreshes of your message list and probably a few other enhancements I haven't stumbled across yet. Oh! I just noticed you can command-select and shift-select messages to delete them or move them to a different folder. No more check boxes!
All in all it looks like a pretty sweet update and those of you who use webmail regularly should be delighted. Of course we'll probably wake up tomorrow to a bunch of folks screaming about bugs they've discovered that will inevitably rear their ugly heads, but without those we'd run out of things to write about, so don't be shy - tell us all about it in the comments!
Thanks, Axe, Kevin, Clay and the rest who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Mike said 9:50PM on 10-26-2006
there is an updated the .mac address book also
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Zac Minor said 10:03PM on 10-26-2006
I havent found a way to set spam/junk filters...am I just missing it, or did they really leave this out?
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anon said 10:08PM on 10-26-2006
Does .Mac also mimic your mail account's POP accounts? In other words, I access my Gmail account via Mail. Will that info be listed there as well?
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rob t said 10:20PM on 10-26-2006
how about actually being able to read your mail? that would be a good feature to keep.
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bloodthirstyrobot said 10:21PM on 10-26-2006
Far too little. Far too late. Oh and far too much $$.
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Matthew said 10:46PM on 10-26-2006
It's pretty good. Pretty, pretty good. I posted a quick write up with screen snaps on my blog if anyone sans .Mac wants to see what their missing: apple-project.com.
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Atm said 10:49PM on 10-26-2006
I don't seem to see where my Sent messages are?
Anyone know?
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univac said 10:59PM on 10-26-2006
iDisk web access has been updated:
idisk.mac.com/username
Nice and pretty.
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Brandon said 11:13PM on 10-26-2006
Doesn't seem to be working too well in Firefox 2 - anybody else having problems?
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Stephen Cee said 11:23PM on 10-26-2006
Yes! I just got my renew notice today and was thinking I wouldn't try to do it this year because of the lame webmail that was truley useless. Looks like I may be renewing after all...
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Bluemarvel said 11:25PM on 10-26-2006
Personally I love the new interface for both .Mac mail and iDisk. Someone mentioned troubles with Firefox: I tested the new mail interface on Firefox 2.0 on my work computer (which runs XP) and it performed well.
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Dan said 11:31PM on 10-26-2006
Brandon,
Yeah I had problems with it in Firefox 2 as well. Pretty much nothing worked then I closed the window and then went back in and now it seems to be working ok. Odd.
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CJ said 12:20AM on 10-27-2006
I like to leave my webmail logged in at work, with Google and .Mac open. Problem is, .mac logs me out after 15 or so minutes so I keep having to log back in. I wish they'd at least give you the option to set the amount of time before you're auto logged-out. I don't want to save my personal passwords in my work keychains so I end up having to type in my password each time. :'(
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Jonathan Allen said 12:21AM on 10-27-2006
Everything looks really nice.
idisk seems to be alot faster than I remember it, but I haven't been using that much lately.
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Elizabeth W. said 1:16AM on 10-27-2006
the thing that sucks is it no longer works on opera on my phone...ugh
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ToeKnee said 1:51AM on 10-27-2006
too little, too late. I just let my charter .Mac subscription slip. Gmail works great. Fix iSync and speed up iDisk, and I may resubscribe.
Apple, I know you're reading this...
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Gary said 2:31AM on 10-27-2006
I wish that would add the ability to change your reply to address. This is the main reason that I don't use .Mac webmail. And the lack of Spam and/or filters is another reason why .Mac webmail is pretty useless to me.
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profscott said 2:31AM on 10-27-2006
"It looks like Mail. It feels like Mail."
If only it filtered spam like Gmail... :)
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Scootash said 4:47AM on 10-27-2006
I got the impression from the preview screenshots that you'd be able to add other IMAP accounts in and access them, not just your .mac mail. Turns out you can't. This was the only real feature I was waiting on.
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bryan said 5:32AM on 10-27-2006
Scootash what made you think that?
I am pleased with the updated interface and functionaliy of the web mail and address book.
now all i need from .mac to be happy is more storage space and the ability to edit my iWeb pages (or at least the blog) from any computer.
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