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Thanks. Hard to find any hard info on MobileMe.
Another question: if I buy a family pack, and take a couple of me.com addresses for spouse and me,
but keep our current 4 btinternet.com addresses, can we sync those accounts too?

Uh-uh, they're POP. Back to the drawing board, but thanks for your help.

Well, currently five Macs in three countries, and now lusting after a pair of iPhones.
So, keeping it all on the server is the only solution for incoming mail, and we end up having to forward copies of sent mails to each other (otherwise they are only available on the particular Mac used to send them).

Steve's had some thoughts on the big launch.

In response to the mistakes, Steve Jobs is cracking down on the management of MobileMe, ousting them in favor of Eddy Cue, who will now be in charge of all Apple internet services --  iTunes, the App Store, and now MobileMe.  He will report directly to Jobs. 

Jobs believes that he, Apple, and the MobileMe team have learned their lesson as he states, "The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services.  And learn we will. The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year."


Updated 8/5/2008
Ars Technica just posted the full text of Steve Jobs' email to the troops:

Team,

The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour.  There are several things we could have done better:

– MobileMe was simply not up to Apple's standards – it clearly needed more time and testing.

– Rather than launch MobileMe as a monolithic service, we could have launched over-the-air syncing with iPhone to begin with, followed by the web applications one by one – Mail first, followed 30 days later (if things went well with Mail) by Calendar, then 30 days later by Contacts.

– It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store.  We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.

We are taking many steps to learn from this experience so that we can grow MobileMe into a service that our customers will love.  One step that I can share with you today is that the MobileMe team will now report to Eddy Cue, who will lead all of our internet services – iTunes, the App Store and, starting today, MobileMe.  Eddy's new title will be Vice President, Internet Services and he will now report directly to me.

The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services.  And learn we will.  The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year.

Steve

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12578

And another PR boner, earlier in article:

Next Apple pulled another bad move in the eyes of many when it automatically checked an option in a Windows iTunes update to install MobileMe software.  Many users compared this to Apple's Safari download scandal that broke a few months back.