Mail for iPhone & iPad

Using anything other mail software on the iPhone or iPad seems to be heresy, but that’s not such a bad thing.  Here is a summary of the functionality:

• Mail lets you access multiple POP, Exchange and IMAP email accounts.
• Emails with rich formatting and heavily formatted attachments are properly displayed.
• Attachments can be opened in external apps.
• There’s close integration with iPhone Contacts.
• Close integration with the Safari web browser makes viewing linked web pages quick and simple.
• Integration with Calendar turns emails into diary events.
• Siri lets you find emails by voice.  It will read them to you and let you compose new messages and send them.
• Find mail in From, To and Subject as well as body text search.
• You can use bulk delete, bulk move, bulk flag and bulk ‘mark as read’ or ‘mark as unread‘.
• You can set up VIP email senders.  Email from them is then collected in an automatic priority search folder.  They can also be announced in a special way.
• Pictures from iPhone Photos can be easily sent as attachments.
• You can paste rich-text content from the web into your emails and apply basic text formatting.
• iPhone Mail expands iPhone-wide text snippets and is lets third-party applications create emails, using message templates, for example.
• Email from iCloud, Yahoo! Mail or Microsoft Exchange accounts can be sent to iPhone Mail.
• Mail supports iPhone 3GS/4/4S/5, iPod touch 4/5 and iPad 2 as well as new iPad.

As usual with any software, there are pros and cons.  They seem to be: