Change which mailbox auto-opens when I open mail

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Change which mailbox auto-opens when I open mail

Hi

I'm new to the iPhone and have just set up all my desired mailboxes, but is there anyway of changing which one opens by default when you open Mail? I have 4 accounts (2 home and 2 internet) and it is defaulting to opening one of my home inboxes because that is the first email account i set up - is there anyway of changing this so it opens another one instead, or will do i need to create them in the order i want them opened in?

iOS 4

Posted on Jul 2, 2010 2:41 AM

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Answer 1

Dave Hutch

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Jul 2, 2010 3:47 AM in response to tanithfirst

I thought Mail ran in the background, in which case it stays on whichver page you left it on when you closed it. How do mean "opening one of my home inboxes"?
When does the iPhone do that?

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tanithfirst Author

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Jul 2, 2010 5:59 AM in response to Dave Hutch

What I mean is that when i tap to open the Mail app it always opens in mailbox of the first account I set up, rather than the main menu. Is there way of changing this?

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tanithfirst Author

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Jul 2, 2010 7:04 AM in response to tanithfirst

I have shed some more light on the problem with a little experimentation. If you close the mail app when it has a particular mailbox open, it will re-open in that mailbox.... However if you close the app from the main menu screen where you can see all the mailboxes and accounts, then it will open again in the inbox of the first account you set up...

It seems the only way to sort this properly would be as I thought - deleting all the accounts and setting them up in order of preference, which seems a bit backwards to me....

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Dave Hutch

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Jul 2, 2010 7:36 AM in response to tanithfirst

But that's only if you full close the app in the multitasking area.
If you just press the Home button and leave it open, the next time you press the Mail button it opens exactly where you left it.

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FiberNut

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Jul 5, 2010 4:10 PM in response to tanithfirst

I know what the poster is saying because it happens to me once a day: this only happens when first turning on the device that day and first starting Mail. Any other time of that day (unless the device is turned off and then back on again), it shows the mail account you just worked with. This is a confirmed Annoyance of iOS4 without question (all the rest of which I love.) It does seem that the only way to change this behavior is to delete the account you don't want it to start up in, and then recreate.

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