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Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Third Edition
Devise an effective mobile strategy for iOS 5, configure your accounts, and read your email with ease!
In this ebook, email expert Joe Kissell shares his real-world recommendations about the best ways to use the Mail app on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, helping you to develop a successful mobile email strategy for iOS 5. You'll get advice and directions for how to set up your accounts, receive email, read and send email, and file messages. You'll also learn to solve connection problems and work around feature limitations.
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Read Me FirstThe iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch are fantastic tools for accessing email on the go, but they also have limitations not found in desktop email programs. This book teaches you everything you need to know to use email effectively on your mobile device, including developing a strategy that makes the most of its unique strengths. It was written by Joe Kissell, edited by Dan Frakes, and published by TidBITS Publishing Inc. |
One of the things I like best about my iPhone and iPad is their power to keep me connected to my email wherever I am. I use email far more frequently than I talk on the phone, so for me, having a capable, always-connected email device (with a Web browser, RSS reader, Twitter client, and a few other tools thrown in as a bonus) more than justifies the expense of these devices.
With each new release of iOS, the included Mail app gets better and better. I’m thrilled to see that as of iOS 5, some old aggravations have gone away, and helpful new features have been added. Even so, some things you may want to do with email are still difficult or even impossible on your iOS device. In other instances, the ways in which you must perform some common task are obscure or confusing. And let’s not forget the idiosyncrasies of various email providers, which may make Mail behave unexpectedly.
Because I’ve written quite a bit about improving your email experience on a Mac, I’ve received lots of inquiries about how to do similar sorts of things on iOS devices. This book is my attempt to answer those questions. Beyond teaching the mechanics of configuring accounts, setting preferences, and navigating the interface, I want to show you how to think about email in a new, iOS-friendly way. By changing your habits and setup a bit (even on your Mac or PC), you’ll make your mobile device a better, more effective email tool.
I hope that by the time you’re finished reading this book, you’ll know everything necessary to make smart decisions about how to manage email on your mobile device, as well as tricks and hidden features that will save you time and effort. Your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch may still be less capable than a desktop email client, but I can get you close to the functionality most of us need from a mobile email program.
This book assumes that your iOS device is using iOS 5 or later (5.0.1 is the latest version available as I write this). As a result, it doesn’t cover the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G, and the first- and second-generation iPod touch. (If you need help with one of these older devices, note that the iOS 4 version of this ebook is available to you on this ebook’s blog, which you can access through Ebook Extras.)
This book shows you how to manage email on your iPhone or iPod touch. If you’re already comfortable with the fundamentals of sending, receiving, and working with email, you can skip Learn iOS Mail Basics initially and refer back to it when needed. Other than that, this text makes the most sense when read in order, as later chapters build on earlier ones.
iOS 5 was a huge update, and as a result, the third edition of this book is too. Mail in particular received many welcome new features. In addition, numerous general changes to iOS itself (such as notifications, text expansion, and iCloud support) make their presence felt within Mail. I’m especially pleased that several shortcomings I complained about in the previous version of this book have disappeared.
Here are the major email-related changes in iOS 5 I cover in this book:
In addition to these major changes, I’ve updated the text in many places to reflect the latest truth—for example, modifications to Gmail’s interface, and details about Mac OS X that are different in 10.7 Lion.
This ebook covers all versions of the iPad, the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4, as well as the second-, third-, and fourth-generation iPod touch. In all cases, the ebook assumes that you're using iOS 4 as the operating system on the device. If you are using an iPhone 4 or a fourth-generation iPod touch, it came with iOS 4 installed. If you are using an iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS, or a second- or third-generation iPod touch, or an iPad, you can upgrade for free and this ebook assumes that you have already done so.
An Apple support article has photos and other details to help you pinpoint your model. For the iPod touch, try Apple's Identifying iPod models article.
Yes. It wholeheartedly includes iPod touch users.
Whether you sync with iTunes on the Macintosh or Windows, this ebook has you covered.
There are lots of great ways to read our ebooks on these devices. For more details, please read our latest Device Advice.
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May 2, 2012 --
Spam clogging the arteries of your iPad or iPhone? Joe Kissell and Adam Engst suggest routing your mail through a server that filters out the digital trans-fats.
—Michael E. Cohen
December 21, 2011 --
Okay, that's journalistic hyperbole (who can tell everything about a book in thirty-seven minutes?), but Joe talks quite engagingly and informatively about his latest edition of Take Control of Mail on Your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. You can either listen to or watch his conversation with Chuck Joiner to find out the latest about Mail in iOS 5.
—Michael E. Cohen
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