August 2010
Beginner
335 pages
8h 3m
English
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Chapter 11. The E-Mail Must Get Through
In This Chapter
Setting up your accounts
Reading and managing e-mail messages
Searching for e-mail messages
Sending e-mail messages
Setting e-mail preferences
Chapter 5 shows you how well your iPhone sends SMS text messages. But SMS text messages aren't the iPhone's only written communication trick, not by a long shot. One of the niftiest things your iPhone can do is send and receive real, honest-to-gosh e-mail, using Mail, its modern e-mail app. It's designed not only to send and receive text e-mail messages but also to handle rich HTML e-mail messages — formatted e-mail messages complete with font and type styles and embedded graphics.
Furthermore, your iPhone can read several types of file attachments, including PDF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents, as well as stuff produced through Apple's own iWork software. Better still, all this sending and receiving of text, graphics, and documents can happen in the background so that you can surf the Web or talk to a friend while your iPhone quietly and efficiently handles your e-mail behind the scenes. And Mail is compatible with the most popular e-mail providers, including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, and Apple's own MobileMe.
As you discover in this chapter, the iOS 4 upgrade brought two important improvements to the Mail app. For starters, you can access a unified inbox of all your e-mail accounts ...
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