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pleting a partial address (in my example, when you start typing your spouse's
name).
No user-defined local mailboxes: You can create new mailboxes in server-
based accounts on your iOS device, but there's no way to create a new local mail-
box. (iOS Mail can, however, store predefined special mailboxes, such as Sent
and Archive, locally.) So, if you use POP, only messages in your Inbox and, op-
tionally, a single Archive mailbox can be stored locally—you can't file them away
in other arbitrary mailboxes on your device as you can do on a Mac. However,
it is possible to move a message from a POP account's Inbox (or Archive) to a
mailbox in a server-based account on your iOS device (see Move a Message to a
Different Account ).
(Almost) no smart mailboxes: On a Mac, you can create smart mailboxes,
which are simply saved searches that show you messages from any mailbox that
the criteria you specify. You can't do this on iOS because Mail in iOS doesn't
cache all your messages. However, you can display and use a few built-in mail-
boxes that are “smart” in their own way—VIP, Flagged, Unread, To or CC, and
Attachments. These mailboxes, which you can add by editing your top-level
Mailboxes view (see Mail Changes in iOS 7 ) , display messages matching those
criteria from any of your Inboxes (but only your Inboxes).
Note: Wondering what To or Cc is all about? That mailbox shows you only messages
that explicitly include you as a To or Cc addressee—which is to say, it excludes mes-
sages where you were a Bcc recipient and most messages from mailing lists.
Two ways to set up a Gmail account to use IMAP: In the Mavericks ver-
sion of Mail, you can set up Gmail using the default Google account type (which
uses IMAP) or using POP. On an iOS device, you have a third choice, which is
to bypass the Google account type and set up Gmail as a conventional IMAP ac-
count, which has several potential advantages (see Set Up Gmail as a Regular
IMAP Account ).
No account syncing: Mavericks can use iCloud to sync the settings for all your
email accounts across your Macs, so that once you've set up an account on one
Mac, you need not repeat that process on the others. Unfortunately, account set-
tings on your iOS device don't sync with either your Macs or other iOS devices.
No plug-ins: On a Mac, you can extend and modify Mail's features using plug-
ins (see Plug-ins ), but no such mechanism exists in iOS 7, so if you're unsatisfied
with Mail's features, your only option is to look for a third-party email client.
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