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Figure 4.10
Viewing sender
information
Add the sender to
your Contacts list, or
add the address to
an existing contact.
A new sender
Someone you already know
Viewing information about a sender or recipient also reveals a neat
shortcut. Say you want to send a friend the contact information of
someone else you know. Instead of opening the Contacts app, you can do it
from within Mail. Locate a message from—or addressed to—the person whose
information you want to share. Tap the person's name. In the popover that
appears, scroll to the bottom of the information and tap the Share Contact
button. A new outgoing message is created with the contact's information
stored in a vCard (.vcf) file as an attachment. When your friend receives the
email, he can add the vCard file to his contact-management software.
When the iPad is connected to the Internet, it can check for new
messages, even when Mail isn't the active app, using two methods: Push,
where new messages are delivered to Mail as soon as they're available;
and Fetch, where Mail contacts each accounts' server to see if there are
any new messages. Of course, you can also perform a manual check
whenever you want.
