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Work with your IMAP e-mail offline

By Anonymous (not verified)

IMAP e-mail accounts (such as Gmail and Hotmail) keep all of your e-mail on online servers, which means that you can't delete messages or read them unless you are online. Fortunately, you can set up your iPhone/iPod touch to copy your IMAP messages onto the device so that you can work with them offline. Here's how you do it:

Live links make life easier

By Anonymous (not verified)

Phone numbers, e-mail and Web addresses, and street addresses that appear in the body of an e-mail or text message are linked to the appropriate application on the iPhone. This allows you to…

  • Tap on a phone number to place a call.
  • Tap on an e-mail address to compose and send an e-mail.
  • Tap on a Web address to open a Web page.
  • Tap on a street address to see it in Maps.