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The Email Must Get Through

On any computing device, emails come and go with a variety of emotions. Messages may be amusing or sad, frivolous or serious. Electronic missives on the iPad are almost always touching.

The reason, of course, is that you're touching the display to compose and read messages. Okay, so we're having a little fun with the language. But the truth is, the bundled Mail app on the iPad mini is a modern program designed not only to send and receive text email messages but also to handle rich HTML email messages — formatted with font and type styles and embedded graphics. If someone sends you mail with a picture, it's quite likely that the picture is visible right in the body of the message. (That's the default behavior, but your results may vary depending on the sender's email capabilities and your iPad's mail settings.)

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Furthermore, your iPad mini can read several types of file attachments, including (but not limited to) PDFs, JPG images, Microsoft ...

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