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MobileMe and personal domains
According to Apple Support documents, personal domains will be kept intact with MobileMe. Blogger Sean Sperte noticed a "personal domain" option while watching the MobileMe quick tour. That prompted some investigation which led to this support document. Sure enough, it confirms that .Mac personal domains will remain untouched by the change:"...If you have a personal domain setup for your iWeb site, it will continue to work without changing any settings at your registrar."
Thanks, Apple!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pete said 12:15PM on 6-29-2008
I wish this meant that you could use MobileMe push emails for your own personal domain. =)
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david said 12:18PM on 6-29-2008
That really would be nice. If the mobileme service extended personal domains to all aspects they would swamped by customers.
Tom said 12:41PM on 6-29-2008
You can login to your .mac mail now and have it check a POP account, so theoretically yes you could have it check your domain's POP and push that to your phone, but I didn't see an interval box in the brief second I glanced at it. Perhaps .me will add more, I don't know.
James Donevan said 12:19PM on 6-29-2008
No news here folks, keep moving aLONG.
Not only was most of this explained at WWDC briefings, but all dotmac subscribers were sent an "An important message for .Mac members" on June 9th detailing all information shown on the support page.
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Ian said 7:31PM on 6-29-2008
Oops, you mistook me for someone who went to WWDC and already has a .mac account.
I wonder how many other millions of Mac users also didn't go to WWDC. I reckon maybe 'millions'? Move along people, the above comment is null and void and is simply a waste of peoples time.
Richard Flynn said 12:45PM on 6-29-2008
Trouble is, that this is only for websites hosted on .Mac (now MobileMe). It doesn’t mean anything for those of us who might be interested in having the MX records (Mail Exchanger) for our domains point to MobileMe. Yes, we will almost certainly be able to forward email direct from our domains to MobileMe, and then to spoof outgoing email so that it appears to come from an email address on our domains, but that is highly ineffective when it comes to spam filtering.
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donnacha said 12:48PM on 6-29-2008
Misleading article, lazy journalism.
All that document confirms, and this has already been thoroughly discussed elsewhere, is that you will be able to do something similar to "web-cloaking" or whatever you want to call it, just as you have always done. THIS ONLY APPLIES TO YOUR iWEB SITE, and has no baring whatsoever on email.
The only domain question anybody cares about is "Will I be able to use my own domain, natively, without forwarding, with the MobileMe service?"
This article is misleading because it actually states "personal domains will be kept intact with MobileMe", suggesting that you will be able to fully use your personal domain - but the referenced document says nothing of the sort.
At this stage, no-one knows and, until more details emerge, articles like this are just trying to drum up revenue.
My guess is that Apple plan to force people into using me.com (or their old mac.com) addresses as a form of viral marketing, for at least the first year or so. It is quite possible they will never allow personal domains.
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Mikey said 6:30PM on 6-29-2008
Never be able to use personal domains? Um, I'm doing so right now. This article actually answered a very big question for me, so I'm not sure what you're not understanding. Thanks for the post!
donnacha said 7:12PM on 6-29-2008
@Mikey: are you saying that you are forwarding email to your personal domain from your MobileMe address? Or from MobileMe to your personal domain address, hosted elsewhere?
Or have apple allowed you to point the MX settings for your domain to their servers and they have taken full authority for all email sent to your domain? Full use of your personal domain, not forwarding, not masking but actual, proper email hosting of your domain?
Because, you know, if that is what you're saying, you need to hold a press conference, and quick, because no-one else has reported receiving that feature, something that thousands of people are crossing their fingers and hoping for.
The Duck said 11:44PM on 7-12-2008
I'll be holding a press conference later today. The topic? donnacha's Aunt Flo is visiting for two weeks.
Jash Sayani said 6:22AM on 6-30-2008
I really want MobileMe, but its too expensive !!!
I wish there would be a way to get a few months free (As I got a new Mac, I guess I would get 3 months free). And also a way to get the 1 yr subscription cheaper....
Any free but good alternative to MobileMe ?
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Christoffer said 2:34PM on 6-30-2008
The cheapest way must be to buy your own domain, and manually upload iweb sites via ftp, and in some way making an exchance push -mail server.
OR you could just get a Yahoo or Gmail, who should have, or get, Push mail feature.
Rigth now i'm having my own domain, and it's definitely not the most easy way, but with a certain degree of time and on various internet forums, you could get the same features.
I've got most of the features, right now, but not as pretty as me.com, and each feature got its own sub-level domail, f.ex my ical server and web interface is on ical.mydomain.com
wallywho said 3:44AM on 9-11-2008
Good, cheap alternative is: interways.net
Full Push services, nice additional features, inexpensive. And you can have/keep your own domain!!!
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cole said 9:20PM on 9-24-2008
ummmm i got my domain on mobile me but it says www.domain.com/bjkla;f/jkl;fdsa.html. Do you know hod to fix this?
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