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Scotty - 

I think we talked about my having trouble with outgoing email last week. I thought the problem was that I had too many addresses in my to: field. Actually it is happening again with only one address. 

This is what it says:

cannot send message using server smtp.me.com:name removed

sending message failed...


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I went to a help page and it said to check the outgoing mail server ( I assure you I haven't altered this in any way recently...)

that page says that my outgoing mail server is:


smtp.me.com:name removed

What happens is it offers to try again later, edit the email, or cancel ( I think) - I believe you saw this page last week and we put the email in my draft folder for me to reduce the addresses and try again. I was able to do that and have sent many emails since you were here. Just started doing it again today.

Is there an easy fix or do I need to have you back over??
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I’ve had several clients contacting me all day over the last 2 or 3 days saying they are unable to send email. I’ve heard through the grapevine that Apple is bringing the MobileMe mail servers offline and back on again at random as they make the switch to iCloud coming up later this week. Many people are reporting outgoing mail problems. If you’ve check the email address you’re sending to and it looks correct, then it’s probably a problem on Apple’s server side and should be back up within a few hours. Not all accounts are affected. You can also check the MobileMe status online at me.com then select to view your account settings in the top right hand corner after logging in.

Here’s a quick list of just a few of the recent outages:
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