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It appears that MobileMe (formerly known as “Dot Mac”), has been showing some signs of attachment disorder. The above errror message is consistent from more than one MobileMe account when sending an e-mail to the domain frontier.net The same e-mail can be sent to a different domain with no problem — message sent, message received.

Apple’s discussion board has little help and little advice.

This behavior is not specific to your own MobileMe account or your computer or location, and I can create the same behavior with other jpg files. What this means, from our testing, is that this issue can vary from one receiving email service or client to the next.

From the thread
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2554211?start=0&tstart=0

So unless someone has some great insight, MobileMe users can only send certain domains e-mail with attachments, and others. Well, I guess you just need to get good at describing your pics or documents.

Apple had better fix this with its iCloud rollout, or it could put a big damper on adoption of the MobileMe/iCloud platform. Either provide a good e-mail service or don't provide one at all. Half baked products leave a bad taste in the mouth.

1 Comment

1. Robert ~ August 26, 2011 16:00
   I would put the blame squarely on Frontier's shoulders. Since Apple Mail users can send emails with attachments through other ISPs, I feel Frontier has either some weird internal configurations or overly restrictive usage settings. I am having problems sending in-line attachments through our corporate Exchange server when I didn't have them with the previous, Linux-based email server. This is a settings problem on our Exchange server, which won't be fixed because they don't want to do anything "extra" for Macs. Of course, using Entourage works fine but that's because Entourage uses the same, non-standard method of documenting the in-line viewing of attachments (attachments aren't actually sent in the middle of the email message, there's a link to those attachments). Apple Mail probably just exceeds the capabilities of Frontier's (antiquated) email server. Frontier bought the rights to Verizon's service in Washington and I refuse to even consider using them. Their name says it all, they're still operating on the old "frontier" using tin cans (ok, I don't have any basis for that last remark but their idea of high-speed internet tops out at 7.1Mbps. The information I've read about their FiOS is that it will never be installed without a huge amount of money by the customer.

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