IPad and email

[EcclesCake]

Please bear with me and forgive my poor terminology......

I'm thinking about getting an IPad. It will be used as a more convenient web browser, for checking email and that's about it probably.

My concern is that I want to continue using my laptop as the primary method for sending and receiving emails but want the convenience of using both devices.

How does email on an IPad work?

I can get emails on my phone and I can supposedly reply even if it does seem to take three days for them to arrive. The emails I get on my phone also appear in my Outlook Inbox. Not sure about sent messages as I gave up replying from my phone because they took too long to be received.

If I log onto another computer and go to Yahoo I can see all my emails and I can send them. But unless I cc myself the sent messages do not appear in Outlook.

Is there a way that I can use both my laptop and the IPad in tandem for email and have emails sent and received appear on both devices?

Feel free to ask all the questions that are obvious to you and have completely alluded me as snippets of vital information!

[sherrardk]

I've got an iPad and you can tell it who your email provider is when you set it up - it must be easy as I did it myself - I can receive emails on my phone or either of my iPads. If I delete messages on any one of them it gets deleted on the others too.

[EcclesCake]

Oooh, get you....'either of my IPads' ;-)

I think my concern is the interoperability with MS Outlook. I think that is where the dragons lie. I might be wrong, I usually am when I try to get techy. I can do it when everything goes to plan but if it goes tits up I'm snookered.....

[sherrardk]

It was my birthday and himself was flush so I got a new one and the kids get to use my old one to their hearts content. I used to get palpitations if the charge dropped below 80% as I use it in the evenings. Can't help with the technical stuff because every time I do something like synching it, etc I can't remember how to do it and it takes ages.

PS - they are an expensive gadget but I do love mine.

[Stevee]

I bought one of these yesterday.

http://www.google.co....i=2&ved=0CK4BEPMCMAU.

I can't be doing with apple. This is exactly the same as your PC, does all the same. It has USB and flash player. Media center with 32gb.

[EcclesCake]

I do want one, but email accessibility is important as browsing and I just don't want the faff of having emails on in only one place.

I'm not technically literate simply because it doesn't interest me. I am definitely a 'plug and play' type, cannot be doing with all the setting up and I absolutely do not get a thrill from writing a bit of code that will make my name flash and have trumpets trumpeting every time I type it.

[EcclesCake]

Stevee, does my email query not still stand though?

How do I ensure I can use both devices in tandem for email?

[ChuckFickens]

The only way I can see to do it really is to stop using outlook on your main computer and use the web based email on all devices.

If BT supported IMAP for their email it could work the way you wanted, but as they don't seem to webmail is the only option you're really left with.

[EcclesCake]

Hurrumph, Chuckfickens.

Now where is the box to tick for 'Answer I didn't want to hear'.....

Thanks, though.

[woofgang]

Easy solution, buy an apple computer as well as the ipad :-)
If you download emails on your ipad first then they will still download on your windows computer but if you download them through outlook first, they wont download on your ipad. Mine sit on my btyahoo server as well so the outlook thing isn't an issue, I use mail on the ipad and web based on the windows laptop if I need too. This is my old one, my new one is a macbook air

[ChuckFickens]

The sent items from the ipad still wouldn't appear in the sent items on the computer though, that's only going to happen if the email account is set up as imap on all devices, which BT don't support.

[woofgang]

true Chuck, what you can do is cc yourself on all emails

[sherrardk]

I was just looking through the apps thing and you can buy something called Outlook Mail Pro (£6.99), maybe you could google it and see if it will solve your problems.

[EcclesCake]

Thanks Sherrard, I'll take a look. x