On 10 Apr 2012, at 17:13 , Kevin Callahan wrote: > A friend wants to migrate to iPad. A key thing is how he currently is > managing email on his Windows laptop. He uses a thumb drive that has some > Thunderbird exe app on it. > He pushes his email to this drive and takes it with him on the go. He can > then insert the drive into a Windows laptop and read/edit emails offline.
There is nothing that is going to work like that for the iPad. However, IMAP works A LOT like that. > Considering with an iPad he'd be online most of the time, that might not be a > problem. However, is there an email client that lets you download your mail > to the device for reading offline? iOs will allow you to cache some number of emails per folder, up to 200 I think. It is not that great a solution though because it really expects to be online, so when you reply, it complains. When you reply again, it complains--maybe twice. iOS is simply not designed to be offline when you're doing offline tasks. That said, you might see if Sparrow has some sort of option for storing mail for offline access, it could, I suppose. And if your friend is in the US and is not living in a rural area, open wifi (o at least "open" wifi) is very common. Even when I was driving through Del Norte Colorado, which has a population of about 2000 and is hundreds of miles from anything one might call a city, I had several options for free wifi. -- Nothing says poor craftsmanship more than wrinkled duct tape. _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
