[zerostar]

Yes!!! I have been hoping & waiting for this, and now it seems confirmed. Good-bye yahoo & gmail, it has been a pain having so many email accounts & my .mac was just forwarded anyway. Now I will have push & calendar from work, and push from .Mac for personal. LOVELY!

MacRumors iPhone Blog: Push Email Support for .Mac Accounts on iPhone 2.0

[Big-C]

I'm glad that you're getting what you want, but I'm underwhelmed for a $100/year service. Maybe the push email along with wireless calendar and address book sync for my iPhone would keep me as a customer. Instead I've just experienced problems; unreliable back-to-my-mac services; unreliable calendar sync between computers (versus constant corruption). Very frustrating and time wasting.

I'm letting my .mac expire next week. If better (wireless) iphone integration gets added, and real answers (and solutions) in the apple forums regarding calendar corruptions would bring me back though.

[kman42]

I'm also excited about this prospect, as well as getting wireless address book and calendar syncing. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it supports iCal and Address Book.

[zerostar]

Sorry to hear the frustration, we fully use all the .Mac features, from email to the webgallery, I usually score it for $70 each year so its still a pretty good value.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Even if I had it I don't think I want push email. People being able to email me and me getting it in 15 minutes is even quicker than I would like.

[Big-C]

Goodie - more rumors:
Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Like I say - if it'll start working independently with my iphone, I'd reactivate my account.

By the way - how does one get it for $70? Is that some arrangement you have, or something available to the average nobody like me?

[frdmfghtr]

Originally Posted by kman42 

I'm also excited about this prospect, as well as getting wireless address book and calendar syncing. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it supports iCal and Address Book.

Why wouldn't it? Doesn't syncing with .Mac include iCal and Address Book?

[edit] Never mind, I thought you were referring to syncing between your Mac and .Mac, not between .Mac and the iPhone. I agree, that sort of OTA syncing would be the deal-maker.

[BRussell]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

Even if I had it I don't think I want push email. People being able to email me and me getting it in 15 minutes is even quicker than I would like.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I'll check my email when I'm interested in knowing if I have any.

[Helmling]

I'm just shocked. I had no f'ing idea that this wasn't already a feature of the iPhone! I've been craving one, counting the days until my Verizon contract expires, under the false assumption that I could get my e-mail on the darned thing.

Well, I hope this development pans out...not that it would stop me from buying an iPhone if it didn't, but you know, I want my mail.

[Helmling]

Originally Posted by kman42 

I'm also excited about this prospect, as well as getting wireless address book and calendar syncing. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it supports iCal and Address Book.

Wait...what?

The iPhone doesn't sync calendars and addresses books with your computer?

[kman42]

Originally Posted by Helmling 

Well, I hope this development pans out...not that it would stop me from buying an iPhone if it didn't, but you know, I want my mail.

Of course you can get email. It just isn't PUSHED to your phone. The phone checks every 15 minutes, just like your desktop computer does (or some other time interval). And if you have Yahoo mail, then it is pushed as well. This new development is that now .mac email will also be pushed.

And YES, you can sync your calendar and address book to the phone, it just isn't synced over the air, wirelessly, instantaneously, no matter where you are. It is synced when you connect the phone to your computer, just like an iPod. What we are all clamoring for is over the air (OTA) sync so that the phone is ALWAYS in sync with your computer.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Helmling 

Wait...what?

The iPhone doesn't sync calendars and addresses books with your computer?

AFAIK it only handles local syncs from your workstation to your iPhone, it does not read this data from the server like it should.

[Helmling]

Originally Posted by kman42 

Of course you can get email. It just isn't PUSHED to your phone. The phone checks every 15 minutes, just like your desktop computer does (or some other time interval). And if you have Yahoo mail, then it is pushed as well. This new development is that now .mac email will also be pushed.

And YES, you can sync your calendar and address book to the phone, it just isn't synced over the air, wirelessly, instantaneously, no matter where you are. It is synced when you connect the phone to your computer, just like an iPod. What we are all clamoring for is over the air (OTA) sync so that the phone is ALWAYS in sync with your computer.

Oh, good. I thought you guys meant that .Mac mail didn't work with the iPhone which was a what-the-@#$% moment for me. Once every 15 min. is enough for me.

[zerostar]

Originally Posted by Big-C 

By the way - how does one get it for $70? Is that some arrangement you have, or something available to the average nobody like me?

Usually someone I know is buying a new mac, and when you purchase .Mac with it, its is $70. Additionally anyone who works at an Apple Store usually can get it for me around $68-70, not sure how. Lastly, and this is what I did lat year, I look on ebay a few months before mine is up, keep bidding at $70 and then I have them email me the code in the box, so no shipping is needed. Those are a few ways I do it... Oh yeah amazon.com sometimes has it for $70 (they do right now)

Amazon.com: .mac

[Big-C]

zerostar:

Thanks for all the info - it never occurred to me to check with Amazon.