Although it’s working for us, we’re getting reports from users that MobileMe email is down, with users unable to log into me.com and unable to send or receive messages by IMAP.
Although mail.me.com does not respond to pings, and many users are reporting issues, the MobileMe status page says everything’s working as it should.
Clearly Apple is making some rather radical backend changes this weekend. This is not the first service outage to occur over the last few days. On Friday night, thousands of owners of iOS devices found themselves unable to use their devices as Apple’s iTunes activation servers went down.
In addition, over the weekend, many iTunes customers had problems with “invalid address” error messages after Apple seemingly changed the way iTunes address verification works.
All of these instances point to Apple making some changes on their backend. Given the upcoming debut of Apple’s new cloud services, my guess is these hiccups are indicative of Cupertino doing the prep work to launch iCloud.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
28 responses to “Users Reporting Problems Logging Into MobileMe Email As Apple Prepares For iCloud?”
Thank God! I’ve been having serious email issues this morning! So happy it’s not just me!
Mail.app on Mac OS X and iOS isn’t working, but Safari Mail is fine.
Mail.app on Mac OS X and iOS isn’t working, but Safari Mail is fine.
I’m having issues, too: I can login via both Mail and Safari, but it’s painfully slow. It just took 11 minutes to send one email.
It has been down for most of the day for me, Last night I was having issues with find my iPhone also. It took several minutes to track down one of my phones.
Problems with sending mail via Mail.app all afternoon. Safari is working normal for me.
Me too on the Mac but iPhone seems to be fine for now.
It´s a mess for me. “Sorry for the inconvenience”? Don´t you f… me¡ That is not enough for a paid service¡¡¡
You must be kidding… “so happy”????? for a Apple service that works like a shit?
Same here, the mail app took more than 1/2 hour to start to work (i.e. sign in and everything else it does) and then it took emails more than 2 minutes to send and the emails I received came about 5 minutes later than sent.
for me everything works fine…
I’ve been having intermittent issues. I can log in, but my Mail.app had been going on and off line all day
I’d prefer to have an email address of @me.com rather than @icloud.com, I think me.com just sounds better.
Suzanne said she’s happy it’s not just her – not that she’s happy the service is poor.