Is it possible to setup a pop email account to work on iPad? I am new to Apple after many frustrating months trying to get Droid and Outlook to sync without having to put everything up on the Google server; not going to do that.

Yes you can easily use pop accounts on the iPad. Not much different than setting it up on a PC.

Originally Posted by Aximtreo

Is it possible to setup a pop email account to work on iPad? I am new to Apple after many frustrating months trying to get Droid and Outlook to sync without having to put everything up on the Google server; not going to do that.

I have a Droid and have no problems with my pop email at all.

I have both gmail & pop mail on my Droid.

Cya

Originally Posted by Tinman

Yes you can easily use pop accounts on the iPad. Not much different than setting it up on a PC.

Is there any control over whether msgs are retained or deleted from the server?

Originally Posted by jaytee

Originally Posted by Tinman

Yes you can easily use pop accounts on the iPad. Not much different than setting it up on a PC.

Is there any control over whether msgs are retained or deleted from the server?

I think so, but I haven't looked hard enough. As far as I can tell, though, iPad doesnt delete my fetched mail from the server like Outlook. At least not yet!

Originally Posted by jaytee

Originally Posted by Tinman

Yes you can easily use pop accounts on the iPad. Not much different than setting it up on a PC.

Is there any control over whether msgs are retained or deleted from the server?

probably better off using the imap server instead of the pop server

I use the imap server instead of the pop server, so that I can view my emails on any device, be it pc, iphone or ipad, once read, it will show as read on all devices, if I delete an email on one device, it will no longer show up on any other devices.

haven't used pop in a quite a while, but I think there is a setting to tell it not to delete it off the server

Originally Posted by jaytee

Originally Posted by Tinman

Yes you can easily use pop accounts on the iPad. Not much different than setting it up on a PC.

Is there any control over whether msgs are retained or deleted from the server?

Yes there is. The default is to NOT delete.

Originally Posted by miket5au

Originally Posted by jaytee

Originally Posted by Tinman

Yes you can easily use pop accounts on the iPad. Not much different than setting it up on a PC.

Is there any control over whether msgs are retained or deleted from the server?

Yes there is. The default is to NOT delete.

How do you do it? I can't find it!

Originally Posted by antonio107

How do you do it? I can't find it!

Instructions:

Choose Settings
Choose mail accounts accounts tab
Choose account to modify
Choose Advanced tab
Set whether you want the messages deleted, retained, or kept for x amount of days.

Thanks!