If you're using one of the more popular email services (Gmail, Yahoo, etc) or an Exchange account, the iPad setup pretty much takes care of that: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4810
Otherwise, you can follow this guide to manually setup either a POP or IMAP account: https://support.exabytes.com/KB/a2819/how-to-setup-pop3-email-account-in-ipad.aspx Like with any email system, if you don't delete emails they have to reside somewhere. --------- Brian On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM, DSinc <dsinc...@epbfi.com> wrote: > Thank you Thane! I've been wondering this also.......... :) > Duncan > > > On 02/15/2013 12:43, Thane Sherrington wrote: > >> If I want to share email between a computer an iPad, can I use IMAP >> rather than POP? If I use IMAP, am I right in thinking that the mail will >> take up space on my provider and ultimately fill the mailbox there? >> >> T >> >> >> >> >> >