Any alternatives for email client for iPad?

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Any alternatives for email client for iPad?

The app that comes installed with the iPad is not really much of an email reader. I can't find any alternative apps in the app store. Suggestions/tips?

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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 7:26 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 6, 2010 8:19 PM in response to Xock

If you can't find any in the app store then there are none.

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Answer 2

Dec 6, 2010 9:29 PM in response to Xock

Find a web-based on that you like, then find an iOS browser that it will run on. I don't think were likely to see a lot of email apps showing up in the store.

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Dec 8, 2010 10:56 AM in response to Xock

I tried to download Mozilla Thunderbird but no go because of no flash. It's really frustrating.

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Dec 8, 2010 11:31 AM in response to lindal2000

lindal2000 wrote:
I tried to download Mozilla Thunderbird but no go because of no flash. It's really frustrating.

Thunderbird isn't an App - Flash has zero to do with it.

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Dec 8, 2010 12:10 PM in response to Xock

Try using Safari to log into your email account. For example, I can log into my gmail with Safari and the web page will look and work as if I'm on my desktop computer.

For those who want to try this, after logging into your gmail account there is a 'Desktop' link at the bottom of the page. You need to click on that link to make this work.

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Dec 8, 2010 12:43 PM in response to Xock

The app that comes installed with the iPad is not really much of an email reader

Can you expand on your comment? You can read email in it can't you? I know I can on mine, and reply...

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Dec 17, 2010 7:38 PM in response to Julian Wright

The native reader in the ipad seems to assume that the user doesn't receive any volume of messages, or has any need to organize them for later use. For example, I receive approximate 200 messages a day . . . So, sorting through that requires automated filters and the ability to do operations on masses of messages, eg. Select and delete a group of messages based on sort key, etc.

Right now I have more than four thousand messages in my inbox because I just gave up on the tedious process of select, delete, select, delete . . . I like the iPad but the email software seems like toy.

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Dec 21, 2010 9:38 AM in response to Xock

I would have to agree, that the one annoying aspect of the iPad is the mail app, and the fact that there are no competing apps available (at least yet). Not a major isuue for me, since I do most of my email activity on the Mac Book and my work computer.Conversly, my CIO uses the mail app for work-related comminication (which is certainly high volume)and says he loves it. go figure.

A suggestion to Apple might be in order.

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Dec 21, 2010 12:36 PM in response to Xock

I dont have this issue. What I did first is set up my hotmail on my laptop with Outlook and created all the rules and folders I needed and then I setup hotmail on my ipad and everthing works just fine.
This link may help:
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/appleiphone/ipad/ipaduserguides/454024/howto_set_up_email_on_the_appleipad.html

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Dec 23, 2010 8:22 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Thanks for the sympathy! As for your CIO, I had a CIO (years ago) who did all his business correspondence with 'EDLIN'. If you have not idea of what is, I'm not surprised . . . It's a line editing utility from FORTRAN programming days. No kidding! My experience through the years, sadly, is that formally trained IT folks leave school two years behind the rest of the consumer world and never catch up.

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Xock Author

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Dec 23, 2010 8:37 PM in response to hm2johnson

Ah, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm consolidating message streams from half a dozen email accounts. Really, all I need is a way to flush old email from the iPad because I'm resigned to doing most of my messaging from my desktop. Any thoughts on how to dump old messages on the ipad without having to peck select, delete, select, delete ad infinimum?

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Dec 28, 2010 7:07 AM in response to Xock

Sadly enough, yes, I do remember EDLIN. And hoped to never hear of it again (and fortran for that matter:)).

Maybe I'm lucky - my education wasn't in IT, I just sort of stumbled into it years ago.

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meganano

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Nov 3, 2011 6:54 AM in response to David M Brewer

If you own your own domain and don't want to use say... squirrel mail or whatever sh1tty webmail client your host provides, gmail isn't really an option.

Plus, not everyone wants to give ALL their data to gmail. It shouldn't be the answer to every problem... APPLE!

I manage 7-10 domains at any one time, and some of them are open due to the way I handle subscriptions and memberships. I filter my mail easily on the OSX native mail app, but on the ipad client it's a joke. I get to read (and delete) my spam ALL OVER again. What's the point of not allowing preferences like filters to cross over to the mail app?

Just opening the mail app is a hassle. If I want to peek at an old message, I have to wait for it to download to all my accounts an I can't stop it. If I'm offline and I want to read a message, I have to wait for eight error messages to pop up telling me that mail can't connect.

What a joke. This is why websites like gmail and facebook are going to continue to rule. At least I can get messages there while on the road.

Apple just fuels the competition by making such crap software for its pretty new products.

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Answer 14

Dec 26, 2011 9:15 PM in response to meganano

meganano you are the man.

I hereby nominate you for CEO of Apple Inc.

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deggie

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Dec 26, 2011 9:47 PM in response to meganano

You are comparing to how an application runs on your desktop computer to how one works running a puny little A5 processor? Really? Everyone here with all these 8 or 9 accounts, several domains, 40,000 emails a day, etc. needs to look into an MacBook Air or the PC equivalent. Asking the iOS mail app to handle this is a joke.

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