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My favorite MobileMe bug

Sunday, July 27th, 2008
by lepton

I love MobileMe, especially the push EMail, which has been working great for me since the start. But they still have bugs to work out, and one of them is the following.

I use MobileMe mail for my iPhone. I get all my mail through other EMail addresses, and they come into my main computer at home. There, I have some rules set up such that the “interesting” mail, such as from work or friends, gets automatically forwarded to my MobileMe mail account. On the iPhone, that is set up as the active mail account, so that forwarded mail gets immediately pushed to me on the phone. It works great, and in fact I’ve been doing this for years, the only new thing is the instant push.

The thing is, when I read that mail on the iPhone, I delete it. But if I go to me.com and check the mail there in MobileMe on the web, all the deleted mails are still sitting there, in the In Box. Though they are properly in the Trash on the iPhone, on the me.com web site, they are still in the In Box.

If I select one of those deleted mails on the web page, and hit the Delete button, it gets deleted, and poof! All the other deleted mails go away too. In other words, all the mail gets properly placed where it belongs at that point.

So the bug is, deleted mail doesn’t get moved immediately (or at all) into the trash at the mobile me web site until you go to the site and give it a push by deleting some of the deleted mail. Clearly the messages are properly being marked as deletede in the system, but are just not properly placed in the deleted web site folder.

Does something like this happen to you?

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