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libraryguy · Dec 27, 2002, 11:53 PM

I'm currently visiting my mother and step father in WA state so my powermac is several thousand miles away. I am forced to use my step dads eMachine running WinXP via dial-up. When I tried to sign into .Mac it continuely simply redirected me to the login screen. I tried again...again, back to the login screen. Through messing around a while I discovered if I click on the account option at the top of the log in window and then entered my password it took me to my account info. I could then click on the "home" option and then select webmail and it would take me to my e-mail account. WHY??? Why would it not allow me to log in the other way? It makes no sense. Anyone have similar experiences? I don't know if it's the computer, the OS or the connection that is causing it. I have had no problems doing this on a PC running Windows 2000 back in Illinois...hmmm...maybe it's the state!

veryniceguy2002 · Dec 28, 2002, 05:38 AM

Originally posted by libraryguy:
I'm currently visiting my mother and step father in WA state so my powermac is several thousand miles away. I am forced to use my step dads eMachine running WinXP via dial-up. When I tried to sign into .Mac it continuely simply redirected me to the login screen. I tried again...again, back to the login screen. Through messing around a while I discovered if I click on the account option at the top of the log in window and then entered my password it took me to my account info. I could then click on the "home" option and then select webmail and it would take me to my e-mail account. WHY??? Why would it not allow me to log in the other way? It makes no sense. Anyone have similar experiences? I don't know if it's the computer, the OS or the connection that is causing it. I have had no problems doing this on a PC running Windows 2000 back in Illinois...hmmm...maybe it's the state!

There have been a few threads on the .Mac members only Apple Webmail discussion group in the Apple web site, discussing similar problems where people cannot access WebMail from a Windows machine. The Apple support can only come up with try the URL http://webmail.mac.com, but people had no success with it, and then the Apple support guy didn't have any other solution...

It sounds a bit like the .Mac Webmail would work on any machine as long as it runs on Mac OS...

jaxxe · Dec 29, 2002, 03:21 AM

Hi,

I'm also visiting family here in WA (Port Orchard) and experienced exactly the same thing on an HP running XP Professional. I set my account up as IMAP in Outlook Express which works perfectly. Also, Netscape worked for a while, but later that evening I wasn't able to log in just as IE kept me from doing. Go figure...

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jaxxe · Dec 29, 2002, 03:27 AM

Very odd... after a reinstall of XP the other day I'm experiencing no problems now logging in via IE...

Appleman · Dec 29, 2002, 06:46 AM

I never understood the "cool" idea of the webmail of Apple. They are so way behind things in this aspect, while Yahoo! and even M$ with Hotmail are just running millions of clients all over the world, for years and years, for free.

I have a .Mac account but never use webmail from it. Yahoo! simply works better and faster. I don't have to enter my password two times...

besson3c · Dec 29, 2002, 11:15 AM

Are there any filesharing programs on that PC which may have littered their spyware?

That could cause that problem.

I've heard of IE 6 causing those problems with other webmail systems and other similar services. IE 6 just seems problematic in general.