Brief Hands-On Report--Webmail Interface for .Mac Members Updated
The .Mac webmail one-ups Mail by including the beginning of every message in the subject line space. One can choose "Short" or "Long" message previews--the latter takes up two lines.
The .Mac webmail also contains an Address Book that can be sync'd with Mac OS X's Address Book.
We extensively used .Mac webmail over the weekend and found it to be as easy to use as Apple Mail and very quick on our cable internet connection. When we first used the Address Book we had to choose one of three options:
Reset will remove .Mac Address Book contacts and replace them with contacts in your desktop Address Book. (Your Quick Address and nicknames will be lost.)
Sync will leave your .Mac Address Book data intact and add any new data from your desktop address book. (It will also change your desktop Address Book data to include any .Mac Address Book contact information next time you sync using Sync.)
Turn off syncing will leave your .Mac Address Book data intact, and .Mac Address Book will not be kept up-to-date with the desktop Address Book. Syncing can be turned back on from .Mac Address Book Preferences.
We chose "Sync" and all of our Mac OS X Address Book contacts were added to .Mac webmail's Address Book. Somehow, we ended up with many duplicate entries though. One drawback is the entries can not be sorted by last name unless one also chooses to list entries by last name first. And if one does the latter, a comma is not placed after the last name. A second drawback is that only one email address and phone number is shown, i.e. either the work or home address/number.
Despite a couple of shortcomings, .Mac webmail is much better than it was. [Bill Fox]
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