After you have set up one or more email accounts, you might want to customize the way they display information. These customizing options aren't necessary, but you might want to choose one or more settings to make your email account uniquely your own. Some of the options you can modify are as follows:
Show Defines how many messages to display
Preview Defines how many lines of each message to display
Show To/Cc Label Displays the To and Cc labels in the preview of your list of messages
Ask Before Deleting Makes you verify that you really want to delete a message
Load Remote Images Turns on (or off) the ability to display images in an email message
Always Bcc Myself Sends a copy of each message to yourself so you know it was sent
Signature Lets you define a message to appear at the end of every message you send
Default Account Defines which email address Mail uses when you send a message such as via clicking a Contact Us link on a web page
To customize your email account settings, follow these steps:
From the home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars. The Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings screen appears (shown earlier in Figure 16-1).
(Optional) Tap Show. When the Show screen appears, click an option such as 25 Recent Messages or 75 Recent Messages, and tap Back to return to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen.
(Optional) Tap Preview. When the Preview screen appears, click an option such as 3 Lines or 5 Lines, and tap Back to return to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen.
(Optional) Tap Minimum Font Size. When the Minimum Font Size screen appears, click an option such as Small or Medium, and tap Back to return to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen again.
(Optional) Tap the Show To/Cc Label on/off switch.
(Optional) Tap the Ask Before Deleting on/off switch.
(Optional) Tap the Load Remote Images on/off switch.
(Optional) Tap the Always Bcc Myself on/off switch.
(Optional) Tap Signature. When the Signature screen appears, type the message that you want as your email signature, and tap Back to return to the Mail, Contacts, Calendar screen again. By default, your signature will be "Sent from my iPad." Simply delete this message if you want to have no signature.
(Optional) Tap Default Account. When the Default Account screen appears, tap the email account you want to define as the default account.
Press the Home button.