MobileMe mail fixes "completed," but other bugs persist

Finally, some good news for MobileMe users, many of whom have been locked out of their e-mail accounts for more than a week. That said, Apple still has a mess on its hands, as various bugs and glitches continue to plague angry subscribers. 

On the recently launched "MobileMe Status" blog, Apple employee "David G." wrote Tuesday night that all e-mail accounts, including all messages before the July 18 outage began, had been "completely" restored. Apple previously said that about one percent of MobileMe users had been locked out of their e-mail, and that some messages might be lost forever.

David G. also noted that a dedicated chat line had been established for any lingering mail problems.

Still, the news from Apple isn't all good. Among other issues, David G. says that Apple's been chasing down a bug that erases contacts and events from iPhones and iPod Touches.

And from the looks of various MobileMe support forums, users are still dealing with a swarm of other bugs, including calendar and contact syncing problems, push e-mail that isn't arriving instantly on iPhones, deleted e-mails not syncing on Me.com, iDisk sync failures (tell me about it), and sluggish Me.com performance.

All in all, it's been a disastrous re-launch of Apple's old Mac.com service (indeed, some MobileMe users who'd been ported over from Mac.com are pleading—in vain—to go back). If you ask me, Apple should continue to comp MobileMe users (who've already gotten a month's free service) until it irons out all the kinks, and anyone who wants a full, no-questions-asked refund should get one.

So, fellow MobileMe users—who else is still having problems? Anyone still locked out of their e-mail? Fire away.

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MobileMe status blog [Apple]