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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)
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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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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bloodthirstyrobot said 10:21PM on 10-26-2006
Far too little. Far too late. Oh and far too much $$.
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Macskeeball said 8:01PM on 10-27-2006
#3, I don't use .Mac, but I've heard that it use IMAP and not POP. As I understand it, the main benefit of IMAP is that your mail stays in sync everywhere.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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mosey levy said 10:58AM on 10-27-2006
idisk.mac.com has looked like that for the past few months,
or am i missing something?
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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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