Apple says it's working around the clock to fix the issues. One issue encountered was a mail outage affecting one percent of MobileMe members, the company says. Last Friday a serious problem with one of Apple's mail servers blocked those members’ access to their MobileMe mail accounts. As of Monday a team was purportedlly able to restore limited web access to those accounts so the affected members can use their browsers to read mail that has arrived since last Friday (though not before) as well as send and receive new mail.

Apple also had this to say: "The day we launched MobileMe, we had a lot more traffic to our servers than we anticipated, with the result that access to the web versions of the MobileMe applications -- Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk -- was temporarily unavailable. We’ve since added server capacity and tuned our software to scale better -- i.e. behave more gracefully when traffic spikes. The team has also fixed over 70 bugs including one that was preventing MobileMe IMAP mail folders from syncing correctly between the web app and Mac OS X Mail or Outlook, plus others correcting display issues in Calendar and in general enhancing the performance of our web apps."

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