MobileMe email Users May Get Relief

For the one percent of .Mac/MobileMe email account holders who are left hanging for a week without access, there is some good news, if you could call it that under the current circumstances. The outage that started on July 18 may be coming to a close. Apple has posted a tech note on the ongoing issues, launched a blog to cover MobileMe introduction challenges, and provided some additional details about what happened. As of 10pm PDT last night, the one-percenters should be able to log into MobileMe webmail and retrieve messages from the July 18–25 outage window, though you won’t be able to do much about mail and messages received before the problem started. Apple also warns affected users NOT to change MobileMe passwords, aliases or storage allocations until the problem is cleared up.