Ron Guest fixed it. This is a generally good idea to delete and re-add email accounts. It fixes many mysterious issues. The next upgrade is just to delete his MobileMe account.
OK. I self-solved this one. I deleted the MobileMe account on the MacBook Air, quit Mail, then started it up again and re-added the MobileMe account in Mail. Now I can send just fine.
via Unable to send mail using MobileMe…: Apple Support Communities.
Apple – Support – Discussions – hello.connectivity.m …. Nice instructions. drbeez has it figured out.
I finally got a Senior Advisor, Taylor, at Apple to answer this. Three previous technicians claimed they’d never heard of this issue.
APACSD is Apple Wide Area Connectivity Service Daemon. It is a function of MobileMe. It doesn’t pertain to BTMM only, but to a world of connections such as Calendar, Contacts, Synch, iWeb, etc.
Taylor explained that this a a form of handshaking between MobileMe and your Mac. If the connection is disabled by your firewall protection, you will see many malfunctions in anything MobileMe-related.
hello.connectivity.me.com is a platform established in OSX 10.6.6 that will later support other added services.
Funny. The third technician thought I was worried about the government seeking contact with my computer (“just who do you believe is trying to access your computer?”) and treated me like a weirdo until I explained the research time I’d spent on this and told him I knew this was an Apple connection. Only then did he pass me along to his superior. At least he learned something.
And maybe this helps someone else who’s bugged by these repeated requests for access. Allow the connection and it’s over with.
MobileMe has had plenty of issues. Read about them here, here, here, here. I could go on, but I think you get the idea. I don’t know why I waited with MobileMe for 10 years. I guess I am slow to learn some things.
How to back up using MobileMes Backup utility Storage. I haven’t found MobileMe‘s Backup utility reliable. I wouldn’t count on this utility. A much safer alternative is the $29 SuperDuper. Still if you can’t afford that, give this a try just watch it closely every week.
MobileMe: Supported system requirements. Nice list of Operating systems that work. Of course they prefer Windows 7 which is understandable.
MobileMe: Data may be removed from Outlook when upgrading MobileMe Control Panel. Yikes. They have a solution to fixing that problem in the link above.
Some MobileMe. Seems like Apple enforced higher security without letting anyone know. You may need to reset your password if you have a simple password.
MobileMe: Unable to browse more than one year of Events in the Calendar List view. So the solution is to use the Month, Week or Day view.
