iPhone Secrets

Chapter 3

Managing Your E-Mail Accounts with iPhone

In This Chapter

• Mastering the Gmail app
• Perfecting the Mail app
• Managing multiple accounts
• Tweaking the settings

Have you looked at how most folks use their iPhone? More often than not, it’s being used with a finger. As voice calls fade to history and text-based communications grow, more and more individuals are using their iPhones predominantly as e-mail machines. The iPhone is actually quite great at doing just that, but understanding the intricacies of how the iPhone handles e-mail is vital to avoiding inefficiencies and frustrations. In this chapter, I do a bit of composing of my own, digging through the App Store’s vibrant third-party library in order to overcome some of the limitations and stumbling blocks related to e-mail. I also show you a few alternatives to the factory Mail app, including Gmail’s own app. Finally, I touch on e-mail syncing and the smattering of options available to keep your iPhone, iPad, and desktop web browser on the same page.

Mastering Gmail’s iOS Application

If you aren’t an avid Gmailer, perhaps this section won’t be near and dear to your heart. But if you are, it’s probably worth a look-see. Most iPhone owners dig right into the conventional Mail app settings—the e-mail app that Apple loads into each and every iPhone Dock it sells—and proceeds with the built-in Gmail registration and setup tool. And that works. It’s quick and painless, and for most, that’s that.

But there’s actually an alternative—an ...