iPad: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition

Chapter 13. Email

Email on your iPad offers full formatting, fonts, graphics, and choice of type size; file attachments like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Pages, Numbers, photos, and even .zip compressed files; and compatibility with Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail, iCloud mail, corporate Exchange mail, and any standard email account.

In iOS 8, the Mail app might well be called “Mail: The Anti-Annoyance App.” For example, new finger-swipes let you delete or flag messages; you can now flip between an email you’re writing and one you’re referring to; and with one tap on an outgoing message, you can request to be notified if anyone replies.

Dude, if you want a more satisfying portable email machine than this one, buy a laptop.

This chapter covers the basic email experience. If you’ve gotten yourself hooked up with iCloud or Exchange ActiveSync, see Chapters Chapter 15 and Chapter 16 for details.

Setting Up Your Account

In the olden days, setting up an email account on a new computer was a harrowing experience, requiring much typing of obscure codes and many calls to tech support.

These days, just typing in your email address and password might be all you have to do; it depends on what kind of email account you have.

Free Email Accounts

If you have a free email account from Google, AOL, Outlook, or Yahoo; an iCloud account (Chapter 15); or a Microsoft Exchange account run by your employer (Chapter 16), then setup on the iPad is easy.

From the Home screen, tap Settings→Mail, Contacts, ...