.Mac mail down, speculations abound

If you're a .Mac mail user, then you probably know that .Mac's mail system has been down for almost 6 hours. According to the .Mac system status, 100% of users are experiencing the problems. Here's what Apple says:

100% of members might experience slower than normal response when using IMAP mail. Mail can be sent and received using .Mac webmail. Normal service will be restored ASAP.

This comes after .Mac has been rumored to undergo re-branding around the time of WWDC (which is next Monday).

Update (8:38p EST): Apple just updated the system status to report that some may not be able to access the .Mac welcome page. Stay tuned to TUAW for updates on the .Mac outage.

Update (9:37p EST): Apple is telling users that they can access the .Mac mail by using the webmail system; however, most users cannot access the entire .Mac website. We're currently experiencing a "504 Gateway Timeout" error when trying to load both the homepage and webmail. Looks as though the same services are down.

Update (10:40p EST): Some commenters are noting that they are now able to retrieve their .Mac mail. Apple has yet to update the .Mac system status.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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ray Packham

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AHHHHH i am awaiting urgent email from work; this is all I get and its now 20:50 GMT

July 10 2008 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alansky

Interesting. My .Mac email is configured as a POP account and I have experienced no interruption in service.

June 03 2008 at 12:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

scott

You have to be kidding me. .Mac mail goes down a full week before Steve's keynote, and everyone jumps right to "speculations abound"? It's not like .Mac mail has never gone down before.

June 03 2008 at 8:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jay

Glad I'm not the only one. Thanks for the info.

June 03 2008 at 2:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

And- you know what else? www.StatueForum.com was down right before that! I'm thinking hackers trying to take down the internet!

June 03 2008 at 12:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Simpson

A very disruptive outage when your business relies on .Mac email. Time to find something else.

June 03 2008 at 12:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bull Winkus

Got mine to work by turning off SSL in Apple's mail program. Go Preferences, Accounts, Advanced. You'll get immediate results!

June 02 2008 at 11:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wilbah

WOW!

EXTREMELY Frustrating work day because of this.

I sure hope it wasn't due to an upgrade to enable "ME". I cannot afford another day like this.

.mac (.me) will very soon be my pleasure e-mail, the name is not professional, or in any way brand typing to Apple.

I use .mac to synch data over 5 computers, and it works seamlessly. For that alone, it worth it. Hopefully more enhancements coming, regardless of what they call it.

June 02 2008 at 11:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dave

So, I forget, but I notice that access via webmail.mac.com is not connecting via SSL - anyone else seeing that? I forget if it used to or not...

June 02 2008 at 11:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MfS

At 10:17PM Central, no .Mac iPhone mail; no .Mac webmail (can log in to .Mac; after a click on "Mail," I get a jumbled mess of a page with nothing in its right place); but Mail in 10.5.3 WORKS. Can send, receive.

So no .Mac webmail, no .Mac iPhone mail, but Mail DOES work.

Strange. Hopefully will be sorted out here shortly.

June 02 2008 at 11:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply