Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
To add a signature line, phrase, or block of text to every e-mail message you send:
Tap
Settings
⇒
Mail, Contacts, Calendars
⇒
Signature on the right. The default signature is
Sent
from my iPad.
You can add text before or after it, or delete it and type something else. Your
signature is affixed to the end of all your outgoing e-mail. You can choose a signature that is
the same across all your accounts, or select different signatures for each account.
To have your iPad send you a copy of every message you send:
Tap Settings
⇒
Mail,
Contacts, Calendars, and then turn on the Always Bcc Myself setting.
To set the default e-mail account for initiating e-mail from outside the Mail application:
Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen, and then tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
⇒
Default
Account. Tap the account you want to use as the default. For example, when you want to e-
mail a picture directly from the Photos application, this designated e-mail account is the one
that's used. Note that this setting applies only if you have more than one e-mail account on
your iPad.
Setting Your Message and Account Settings
This final discussion of Mail involves more settings that deal with your various e-mail accounts.
Checking and viewing e-mail settings
Several settings affect the way you can check and view e-mail. You might want to modify one or
more, so we describe what they do and where to find them:
To specify how often the iPad checks for new messages:
Tap the Settings icon on the Home
screen; tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
⇒
Fetch New Data. You're entering the world of
fetch-
ing
or
pushing.
Check out Figure
5-13
to glance at your options. If your e-mail program (or
more precisely, the e-mail server behind it) supports push and the Push setting is enabled on
your iPad, fresh messages are sent to your iPad automatically as soon as they hit the server.
If you turned off push or your e-mail program doesn't support it in the first place, the iPad
fetches data instead. Choices for fetching are Every 15 Minutes, Every 30 Minutes, Hourly,
and Manually. Tap the one you prefer. With push e-mail, messages can show up on the Lock
screen and in the Notification Center.
To hear an alert sound when you receive a new message:
Tap Sounds on the main Settings
screen, and then tap the New Mail setting. The Ding sound is there by default. Do nothing if
you're satisfied with the Ding you hear each time a new message arrives. If you aren't satis-
fied, tap New Mail and select an alternative sound from the list, or tap None if you don't want
to hear any such alert.
To set the number of lines of each message to be displayed in the message preview:
From
themainSettingsscreen,tapMail,Contacts,Calendars
⇒
Preview;thenchooseanumber.Your
choices are None, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines of text. The more lines of text you display in the list,
the fewer messages you can see at a time without scrolling. Think before you choose 4 or 5.
