Multiple email users on one iPad?

In a word, no.

What I did was set a new userid only for the iPad. Then we set up mail rules from each of our Ids to forward generic family type email to the iPad.

huh? How did you do that? Thanks!

I'm thinking of buying an iPad for the same purpose. I'm thinking of not configuring any email to the iPad. All users would need to use the web browser to read emails. I wonder if a "desktop" link can be set up to goto gmail is a username specified, then only have to enter a password. Something like:

https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?user=myGmailUserName

You can save the URL for a website as a webclip on the Home page and enter your chosen name for the webclip. When selecting the named webclip on the home page - has the same size icon as an app's icon, Safari will launch and take you to the URL for the webclip.

With a webpage selected, when selecting the + icon, the following options are available.

Add Bookmark
Add to Home Screen
Mail Link to this Page
Cancel

Select Add to Home Screen to add a webclip for the URL on the home screen for quick access to the website from the home screen.

iPad == single user.

If you want to share mail client then you share mail.

I suggest use of a webmail interface. That is my preferred method overall as I have not gotten a virus via email on any system if I use webmail.

'Push/pop/imap/smtp' clients tend to try and do stuff for you that webmail doesn't.

Have ewach person log into gmail (Yahoo, ...) using a good browser on the iPad (when one is available).

Webmail is an answer but surely there's a niche for an IMAP &/or POP client app that will allow you to in effect log in when the app starts or allow for multiple installs with different configs ? found a couple of IMAP clients that work for me but all cache the login data and co-mingle the accounts like the standard app.

I guess we're all looking for the same thing here and not looking for DES level security over the data just something to seperate mail for different members of the household. Any budding app-builders ouit there. I'd buy it!

As an aside Good Technology do this for my work/enterprise mail onto the pad and it works a treat I just don't want the baggage of having to set that type of back-end up for our home mail it would be overkill