Adjust Mail Settings

Your iPad offers numerous ways to customize Mail's settings—some of which apply to individual accounts and some of which apply globally. The following are some of the main settings you may want to adjust.

Account Settings

To change the settings for an account, such as the user name, password, email address, or mail server address, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and tap the account name under Accounts. For MobileMe, Exchange, and Gmail accounts, then tap Account Info.

  2. Change the contents of any of the fields to the desired values.

  3. To change the settings for an outgoing mail server, tap SMTP, tap the address of the server, fill in the necessary fields, and tap Done.

  4. To change the mailboxes used for ...

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