After work over the weekend to touch on functionality to MobileMe , Apple said on Sunday night that nearly half of the users affected by the on-going woes plaguing the newly launched online service have e - mail admittance once more .

By Sunday , Apple said in apost at its MobileMe condition pagethat 40 per centum of the affected exploiter now have vitamin E - mail admission again along with most of their e - chain mail story restored .

“ We call on on entanglement access to [ affected contributor ’ ] current e-mail yesterday and the feedback has been cautiously positive , ” the post register . “ Since then , we ’ve restored   full email history ( minus the just about 10 % of chain armor received between July 18 and July 22 which may have been lose ) and the power to access e-mail from a Mac , microcomputer   and iPhone , to over 40 % of these users , and expect the remainder to be restore in the next few days . ”

Apple add that due east - mail received by drug user affected by the outage between July 18 and July 22 was placed on its newfangled waiter with a July 23 date stamp . “ If you need the actual appointment for picky messages you could take advantage of the ability to view farseeing header in MobileMe Mail ( via predilection ) to peer into the logarithm and find the actual posting time and date , ” the post adds .

MobileMe , the replacement for Apple ’s .Mac service , officially launched July 11 . The service of process is aimed at giving user the ability to simultaneously sync post , contact , and calendar information between data processor , iPhones , and other mobile devices .

However , the service has been plagued by problems since launching , a fact Apple acknowledge on July 16 when it apologized for the stony transition and stretch out MobileMe subscriptions by 30 day . However , problems have continued for some users , with Apple consecrate to have “ mass … working 24 - 7 to meliorate issue . ”

In Sunday ’s update on MobileMe service restoration , Apple vowed to carry another position report early this week .