Chapter 4. Email

Email is a part of our culture, and it is expected that you can read and respond to emails no matter where you are. With your Fire you can do this (assuming you have a network connection) and even more.

Once you’ve read this chapter, you’ll be the master of email on your Fire, though your Fire can’t automatically clear out your inbox for you—yet.

The Fire supports several kinds of email accounts:

• POP accounts download your email messages from the mail server and store them on your Fire. Once they’ve been downloaded, they can be deleted from the server.

• IMAP is the setting I recommend to people. Instead of downloading email to your Fire and deleting it from the server, with an IMAP account the mail stays on the server but ...

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