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8. Enter your username and password in the appropriate fields.
9. Tap the Next (sometimes Save) button in the upper-right corner to create the account.
You're now ready to begin using your account. See the section “ See Me, Read Me, File Me,
Delete Me: Working with Messages . ”
Some outgoing mail servers don't need your username and password. The fields for
these items on your iPad mini note that they're optional. Still, we suggest that you fill them in
anyway. It saves you from having to add them later if your outgoing mail server does require
an account name and password, which almost all do these days.
Setting up corporate e-mail
The iPad mini makes nice with the Microsoft Exchange servers that are a staple in large enterprises,
as well as many smaller businesses.
What's more, if your company supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, you can exploit push e-
mail so that messages arrive pronto on the iPad mini, just as they do on your other computers. (To
keep everything up to date, the iPad mini also supports push calendars and push contacts.) For push
to work with an Exchange Server — at press time, anyway — your company must be simpatico with
one of the last several iterations of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Ask your company's IT or tech
department if you run into an issue.
Setting up Exchange e-mail isn't particularly taxing, and the iPad connects to Exchange right out of
the box. You still might have to consult your employer's techie-types for certain settings.
Start setting up your corporate e-mail on your iPad by following these steps:
1. Tap the Exchange listing on the Welcome to Mail or Add Account screen. (Refer to Fig-
ure 5-1 . )
2. Fill in what you can: your e-mail address, domain, username (sometimes domain\user ),
and password. Or call on your IT staff for assistance. Tap Next when you're done.
3. On the next screen, as shown in Figure 5-4 , enter the Server e-mail address, assuming
that the Microsoft Autodiscover service didn't already find it. Tap Next when you're
done.
That server address may begin with exchange .company. com .