Friday, October 27th, 2006
Category: Showcase
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>Apple has upgraded the .mac webmail solution to use Ajax, following in the footsteps of Yahoo!, Google, Hotmail, and others.
It looks like it has been built to mimic Mail.app as closely as possible and features:
- Drag-and-drop functionality
- A message pane
- Quick Reply
- Address Book integration
- Message previews
- Message flagging
- Keyboard shortcuts
And, with IMAP support you can bounce from desktop to web version and it will all look the same.

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The app needs further work on browser detection. I’m using FF 1.5.0.7 but I got a message stating that I may be using an unsupported browser and it recommends FF 1.0.4 or later to me.
I’m using Firefox 2.0 and it worked just fine. It’d be kick-ass if there was a “synch desktop with mail” so you could have the client and web.
Oops, my mistake. I think that might be just a generic message. Sorry for my earlier comment :-(
I use the Mac Mail app to read several mail accounts via IMAP but the web client doesn’t support IMAP so I can’t use it as a desktop replacement on the road. They so support pulling in messages from other accounts via POP but this defeats the point of IMAP.
I had hoped that since I sync my IMAP account details via .Mac that the web client would automatically incorporate them into the webmail environment.
Still, pretty good work as an Ajax webmail UI.
Sure its trying to mimic the technology, but after all, it’s not free like the rest of other good webmails.
Good site I found ..Plan on coming back later.