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http://www.mac.com/1/memberbenefits_nm.html

Looks like it has gotten a little bigger :)

[onlyafterdark]

You beat me to it.

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And I don't even own one :p

;)

[torifile]

They've increased the full accounts' email account + idisk storage to 250 megs and the email-only accounts to 50 megs. That's good. This makes me feel a little better about the bounced email I and my wife had to deal with yesterday. We were NOT happy, particularly with her looking for a job and having emailed a bunch of potential employers...

[murbot]

That is awesome. I was getting so pissed at the paltry 100MB of storage.

It's no gig, but 250MB makes me feel much better about plunking down the cash for my renewal next week.

BTW, you can all thank me. I'm certain it was my waiting until the last minute that prompted this change.

:)

Whoa. I just noticed that you can go to a gig for $50US. I think I'll be putting this one through work's books... I might just spring for this one.

[psmith2.0]

This makes me feel a little better about the bounced email I and my wife had to deal with yesterday. We were NOT happy, particularly with her looking for a job and having emailed a bunch of potential employers...

I think that was the result of a known, acknowledged glitch on their end (http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/28/macemail/). I, too, sent a couple of e-mails to friends around noon and they immediately got bounced, even though they were to addresses I knew were clear and open and I'd just sent one to it less than an hour earlier.

I'm betting in preparation for today's upgrade, someone at Apple was farting around with the mail server stuff and laid an egg for about 30 minutes yesterday. After I returned from lunch, my .Mac e-mail worked perfectly the remainder of the day.

[onlyafterdark]

I had the same problem, but by the time I was back from my lectures ~dinner time everything was working fine.

[torifile]

I think that was the result of a known, acknowledged glitch on their end (http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/28/macemail/). I, too, sent a couple of e-mails to friends around noon and they immediately got bounced, even though they were to addresses I knew were clear and open and I'd just sent one to it less than an hour earlier.

I'm betting in preparation for today's upgrade, someone at Apple was farting around with the mail server stuff and laid an egg for about 30 minutes yesterday. After I returned from lunch, my .Mac e-mail worked perfectly the remainder of the day.
That's what I'm figuring too. My wife was wondering why she hadn't received any emails and she sent a couple to me and to herself to see if either of us were getting emails. We both have .mac accounts and they bounced from my account back to her account which wasn't receiving emails either. That email probably playing ping-pong somewhere out in cyberspace right now....

[Wrao]

I was apprehensive about .mac but I think I'm going to get it now. good stuff.

[Paul]

Sweet...
Default settings are 125 MB of mail storage and 125 MB of iDisk space, and you can designate the storage to fit the way you use your .Mac account.

10 days left until I am forced to renew... :grumble: anyone buying a new mac within the next 10 days and not getting the .mac promo? (http://www.apple.com/promo/sweetdeal/)

[bpmendoza]

Can someone tell me how to change the allocation of the storage space?

[onlyafterdark]

Its under account settings I believe.

[SKMDC]

I renewed mine last week at 250 MB (which is like 60 bucks more, so today I'm thinkin' "cool i'll be saving 60 clams", but today Apple e-mails me and tells me that since I already re-upped and ponied up the dough, they were giving me 1.2GB for the same amount.
I think I feel cheated. I think I should have been offered the choice.

[Mac+]

SKMDC - I understand your grief - but I think it is *hard* for companies to give-up $ that they have received for some strange reason. :rolleyes:

I would have preferred (as you explained) to have spent less than received the extra 1GB (or so) of storage also. Maybe if you contact them directly - remember, "the squeaky wheel gets the oil." ;)

[SKMDC]

yeah but it doesn't get charged to my card until the 3rd(of october), I'm being penalized for paying early.

[dfiler]

Damn dot mac is expensive... Especially when you blow all you money on a downhill rig and then Apple goes and overdraws your credit card out of the blue.

Seems like reminder emails one week as well as one day prior to renewal would be the polite thing to do.

:mad:

[onlyafterdark]

That sucks big time. On a side note, what type of DH rig did you get?

[dfiler]

Yep, i got notice when my credit card company emailed me about going over the limit.

DH Bike? No pics of the new one but check out the old. (Gotta make use of my .Mac right?)
Old Bullit (http://homepage.mac.com/dfiler/forum_pics/Ebay%20Bullit%20Porn%20-%2001.jpg)

Now being sold on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7101584061).

[Ryan]

I'd just like to see them add support for PHP. Not even MySQL. Just some basic scripts. I run the website for my school band and have both a message board and photo gallery, but I have to host it on my ISP's space because I can't use PHP with .Mac. It was OK using the 80 megs from my ISP, but 250 is very tempting.