Apple today debuted the company’s new .Mac webmail. It’s got a whole new look, updated features, and it’s available today. With its smart use of the latest web technology, the new .Mac webmail will remind you of the Mail application on your desktop.
In the new .Mac webmail, you’ll find:
• Drag-and-drop functionality
• A message pane
• Quick Reply
• Address Book integration
• Message previews
• Message flagging
• Keyboard shortcuts
Unlike most webmail services, Apple’s .Mac webmail uses IMAP. So you can rest easy knowing that your .Mac mail will be just as you left it, no matter where you log on next.
To get the most out of the new .Mac webmail, make sure you’re using the recommended version of Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer:
Mac OS X: Safari 1.2 or later, Firefox 1.0.4 or later
Windows: Firefox 1.0.4 or later, Internet Explorer 6 or later
Then just sign in and get started here.
Don’t have a .Mac account? Learn more about .Mac and sign up for a free 60-day trial now.
Related MacDailyNews article:
Why Apple’s new .Mac webmail is important – September 29, 2006
Apple teases new .Mac webmail coming soon with drag-and-drop, built-in Address Book, and more – September 27, 2006
Yes… but will it filter Spam better than the Mail app on OSX?
Hmmm…. Wouldn’t mind seeing an increase in the amount of storage.
Peace.
Wheres the new features?
I’m useing Safari 2.0.4, but it wouldn’t work for me. The Inbox and all my mail showed, but it wouldn’t display any of the email messages or change folders if I clicked on them. I even tried logging in/out three times.
I’m having the same “user experience” as GW3. I’m feeling kind of underwhelmed at the moment and hope this is just a glitch that will be ironed out overnight.
A nice upgrade…
Now where’s my iPhone with .mac integration?
Other than visualizing the initial screen, I couldn’t navigate any folders. I was only able to log in and subsequently log out. Has anyone else experienced this?
Apple’s new Web Mail is nice but I just lost 2/3 of an email to a friend due to its not notifying me that it was timing out. When I finished the email it told me it had timed out. When I checked Drafts, only a third of the text was there. Not too impressive a start though the features are nicer.
GW3 – had the same issue here, but when I emptied the cache and refreshed the screen it worked.
GW3 — sorry, I just noticed your comment after I posted mine. I’m also using Safari 2.0.4. Hopefully the bugs will get worked out soon.
WebMail seems to be working properly now.
Update for me… The new .Mac webmail worked just fine using Firefox 1.5.0.7.
Took Jim’s suggestion and emptied my cache and now it’s working properly using Safari 2.0.4. Thanks, Jim! Hopefully .Mac is fixed for good now.
Much appreciated improvement.
I’m totally underwhelmed by this. Very unresponsive and slow. Apple can do better than this.
This is great, just what I need while away from home.
Great stuff Apple.
Doesn’t work for me on a G5 dual, not on my powerbook G4 12 inch 1,5 Ghz, works on powerbook G4 12 inch 1 GHz and G4 quicksilver.
STRANGE
(on the two not working computer, CS2 is installed)
Working OK so far from my computer at work (Dell, W2K, FF 2.0). Haven’t tried it from my Macs yet, or with other browsers.
Got same issues as GW3 here, using Windows (at work) with Firefox v1.0.5.7
I’ve been looking forward to this update, annoyed that it doesn’t appear to be working properly … if at all.
Okay, closed the Webmail page, exited Firefox, loaded it again (i.e. “turned it off and on again”) and it now works perfectly.
Perhaps it was something to do with that large blue ‘Welcome’ box?
@ United States of Generica
Did a restart of Safari, thanks to your tip it works for me now.
AND HOW? Very very fast!!!
I use gmail too, but this is waaaaayyyy faster for me!!!!
Like Apple.
Love Mac.
No use for an iPod.
Hate .Mac – The past two months, my .Mac email has been acting real flakey, mainly, Mail cannot access it reliably. It’s too expensive, got my own domain with hundreds of real email addresses at GoDaddy for $49, rock solid and fast! Will let my .Mac die on the vine in one month.
New look? YAAAAWWWWNNNNN!
No more free music loops.
No more free software.
The gift is smaller, just the wrapper is prettier, while the rest of the world swiftly advances past it. It’s just not enough! Copying Microsoft’s Vista-like in tactic? …all flash, no bang? Apple will have to make huge significant changes for me to ever reconsider .Mac again. Oh and PLEASE, Apple, stop making your Apple store reps try to shove .Mac down my throat every time I just look at a Mac in the store. My next Mac will be online to avoid your useless reps.
WORKS GREAT FROM SAFARI AND MY POWERBOOK!! OS 10.4.8. The quick-reply feature is incredible. I hope this becomes part of Mail in Leopard. Eat your hearts out, non-MacMail users. MacMail has one-upped everyone with the quick-reply feature.
Go Apple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I use the MDN link like this then .Mac Mail does not work for me:
http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Webmail.woa/
Like others above, the screen is unresponsive — messages cannot be selected, nor mailboxes. When I try to send a message, a “www.mac.com” error message appears.
On the other hand, when I go to .Mac Mail from anywhere other than through that link, it works great. So something appears to break when going to .Mac Mail directly through that MDN link above.
I repeated this several times with the same results.
PS: Forgot to say, the latest OS X and Safari, on a 12 in. PowerBook G4.
“Anyone else getting those annoying pop under ads that say “congratulations, you’ve just won [fill in the blank].””
Please join me in writing to and boycotting sites that FORCE audio on you while you are browsing. It’s got to be one of the worst things to happen to the internet since it was invented.
MDN should change the link they are offering:
FROM http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Webmail.woa/
TO http://webmail.mac.com
This will take care of the lock-up problem that many of the readers are experiencing when they follow MDN’s link to the new webmail.
At the same time, Apple can look into resolving why MDN’s link causes the lock-up problem.
Scoo
If you click new, dont type anything and click save as draft you get an error message “TypeError – Undefined value” and I don’t see a way to get out of creating a message.
Dave
Works great for me. No problems and I really like what I see. For me .Mac provides a great and simple solution to synching several computers so I have the same address book, bookmarks etc.
One thing I didn’t see though… the Address Book on .Mac still doesn’t retain the group affiliation that exists in the desktop Address Book. That really limits the usefulness of the .Mac address book for me.
All in all though I am happy with .Mac. I am glad to see that Apple is taking an interest in making it better because it could be so much more!
I agree with macromancer. Popups with audio are despicable intrusions on our privacy and work flow, especially when they manifest while we’re at work. The “congratulations, you have just won” series is among the worst. Another was from a site called Shmooze with the sound of a cow going M-O-O-O! They must have gotten too many complaints because the latter is no more. Hopefully browser developers will come up with a way to block this trash.
What is the deal about neglecting to mention other browsers? Firefox is a relative Johnny-come-lately compared to Camino, OmniWeb, even Opera. Did they not test or optimize for other browsers? I would expect others to work. If not, Apple should have fixed it. If so, Apple should have listed them. Does Firefox on the Mac pay a fee to Apple for that? I think it’s insulting to those developers who were steady in developing alternate browser support for the Mac.
Same as GW3. I can log in, but the welcome screen wouldn’t go away, until I refreshed the page. Then I couldn’t select and read any mail. Dragging only selects text.
After choosing the 3 pane view in preferences, I could see a preview pane, however, could not preview any mail.
I have used webmail.mac.com as well as the other link provided above.
After trying to create a new folder, the ‘done’ button didn’t do anything.. Refreshing the page made the window go away, and I now had my new folder, but I was back to the 2 pane view.
Thanks Kerry,
Works for me now after going through Apple to get to .Mac.
Overall the new feature is good and I’m sure it will improve. It certainly beats anything out there for consistency between a mail app vs web access.
Works fine with Camino ver. 1.0.3. Why no ability to filter spam like with Gmail?
I use .mac because I feel as though I am contributing further to a company that I like. Sure, there are better email clients out there, but none that are Apple hosted!
I also agree with macromancer. These audio pop under ads are horrible. But I blame MDN just as much as the companies that make them. MDN isn’t forced to use those kinds of ads–they choose to. We can choose to boycott the companies the ads are for, but we can also choose to boycott MDN for allowing them! Enough already.
I am not getting any pop under ads. What browser are you guys using? You can also add clicksynergy.com and others of their ilk to your hosts file and point them to 127.0.0.1, and the ads will be replaced with a genereic error message.