Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Prep Work: Setting Up Your Accounts
First things first. To use Mail, you need an e-mail address. If you have broadband Internet access
(that is, a cable modem, FiOS, or DSL), you probably received one or more e-mail addresses when
you signed up. If you're one of the handful of readers who doesn't already have an e-mail account,
Or you can get a free premium e-mail account (for example,
Your_Name
@iCloud.com) from Apple
as part of iCloud. From your Home screen, just tap Settings
⇒
Mail, Contacts, Calendars
⇒
iCloud.
Many free e-mail providers add a small bit of advertising at the end of your outgoing
messages. If you'd rather not be a billboard for your e-mail provider, either use the ad-
dress(es) that came with your broadband Internet access (
yourname
@comcast.net or
your-
name
@att.net, for example) or pay a few dollars a month for a premium e-mail account that
doesn't tack advertising (or anything else) onto your messages.
Finally, while the rest of the chapter focuses on the Mail app, you can also use Safari to access most
e-mail systems, if that's your preference.
Setting up your account the easy way
Chapter
3
explains the option of automatically syncing the e-mail accounts on your Mac or Win-
dows PC with your iPad mini. If you chose that option, your e-mail accounts should be configured
on your iPad mini already. You may proceed directly to the later section
“
See Me, Read Me, File
If you haven't yet chosen that option but want to set up your account the easy way
now, go to Chapter
3
, read about syncing e-mail accounts, and then sync your iPad mini with
your Mac or PC. Then you, too, can proceed directly to the section “
See Me, Read Me, File
Me, Delete Me: Working with Messages
,” later in this chapter.
Remember that syncing e-mail accounts doesn't have any effect on your e-mail messages; it merely
synchronizes the
settings
for e-mail accounts so you don't have to set them up manually on your
iPad mini.
