Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

Introduction

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. 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.

In the midst of this shiny happy situation, however, are a few notable aggravations. As is often the case, Apple made several design decisions in the iPhone OS's Mail app that favor ease of use over flexibility, making some things that you may want to do with email difficult or even impossible. 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 ...