Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
To delete a single message without opening it,
swipe one finger in a leftward direction
across the message in the mailbox list and then tap the red Delete button that appears to the
right of the message. You'll also see a More button when you swipe left. Tapping More gives
you, well, several more options: From here you can reply, forward, flag, mark as read (or un-
read), move to Junk, or move a message elsewhere.
In certain Mail accounts, Gmail being one, the Delete option may be replaced by an
Archive option, depending on your preference. That means you're not so much getting rid of
a message as stashing it aside, or to be precise, saving the deleted message in your All Mail
folder. If the Archive message option does present itself, you can turn the feature on or off in
Settings.
Searching e-mails
With Spotlight search, you can easily search through a bunch of messages to find the one you want
to read fast — such as that can't-miss stock tip from your broker. You can type
stock
or whichever
search term seems relevant in the search box at the top of a mailbox preview pane. All matching e-
mails that have already been downloaded appear. And you can run a search to find words within the
body of an e-mail message from the Mail app. (For more on Spotlight search, see Chapter
2
.)
Search within Mail is really quite powerful. For example, you can search by time frame by typing
something along the lines of “March meetings.” That will find all the appropriate messages having
to do with meetings that month. You can also search to find just flagged messages from your VIPs
(“Flag unread VIP”).
Via the iPad, you can also search just the current mailbox or across all your mailboxes. Just scroll to
the top of the mailbox previews pane and tap either the All Mailboxes tab or the Current Mailbox
tab after you enter your search query.
If you're using Exchange, iCloud, or certain IMAP-type e-mail accounts, you may
even be able to search messages that are stored on the server.
Don't grow too attached to attachments
Your iPad can even receive e-mail messages with attachments in a wide variety of popular file
formats. (See the nearby sidebar
“
Keeping files in order
” if you're not sure what file formats are.)
Which file formats does the iPad support? Glad you asked:
Images:
.jpg
,
.tiff
,
.gif
,
.png
