While the process is quite simple, there are a few tricky steps you can easily overlook which will make it tough for you to send an email.

The following is a guide for users when trying to send emails to others.

1)    Tap Enter
2)    Type a name or email address in the ‘to’ field, or tap ‘+’ to add a name from your contacts.
3)    As you type an email address, matching email addresses from your contacts list appear below. Tap an address to add it. To add more names, tap Return or ‘+’.
4)    NOTE: If you’re composing a message from your Microsoft Exchange account and have access to your enterprise Global Address List (GAL), matching addresses from the contacts on iPhone appear first, followed by matching GAL addresses.
5)    Tap Cc/Bcc/From if you want to copy or blind copy the message to others, or change the account you send the message from. If you have more than one email account, you can tap the From field to change the account you’re sending from.
6)    Enter a subject, then your message.
7)    You can tap Return to move from one field to another.
8)    Tap Send.

To Reply to an email, tap ‘Reply’ or ‘Reply all’ if you want to send it to others on the list.

To forward a message, tap ‘Forward’. You can add more email addresses form here.

It is also possible to add videos of photos to emails. Just tap the ‘Add Email’ and ‘Add Photo’ links to do so.

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The new iPhone 2.0 software supports Microsoft Exchange services and Apple’s Mobile Me service (the replacement for Apple’s .Mac). Apple claims Mobile Me is “Exchange for the rest of us” and it can push email to devices running iPhone 2.0 as well as sync with Microsoft Outlook on a Window’s PC or the Mail, Address Book and iCal apps on a Mac.

The new iPhone’s main settings menu offers a new icon labelled Fetch New Data that lets you enable push email. You can also schedule the phone to automatically check non-push email services at 15, 30 or 60-minute intervals, otherwise only manually.

Which email providers work with push?

Push support depends on your email provider. The original iPhone supported push email with Yahoo! by routing email through a dedicated server but overall the service was unreliable. The same server is still used as the default Yahoo! email set up under iPhone 2.0 but if it doesn’t work you can modify the settings by going to Other and manually set up POP3 Yahoo! access. Gmail does not support push email, only IMAP or POP3.

What if I use Gmail or email from my ISP?

One work around is to forward your existing email address such as a Gmail account to your Mobile Me account. Another option is to create server-side filters on Gmail to only forward emails from certain senders to your Mobile Me address so you’re not flooded with spam.

You can also configure Mobile Me to automatically check your external POP3 email accounts, but this won’t get emails from Gmail to your phone as quickly as it would if your Gmail automatically forwarded them.

How Much Data does push use?

One thing to keep in mind is that push email uses more data. The iPhone 2.0 mail client only downloads email headers from IMAP and POP3 servers to save on bandwidth. When using push email services, the phone automatically downloads the body of the email and small attachments – meaning you should avoid push email unless you have a generous monthly data allowance.

The iPhone will also disable its Wi-Fi connection when sleeping or witching over to the mobile data network. This means your push email will come down over the mobile data network while the phone is at rest, even when you’re in a Wi-Fi network.

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While the Apple iPhone doesn’t have quite the same offerings as a BlackBerry, the latest firmware that adds Microsoft Exchange Push Email Support and enterprise-level security measures means that Apple’s email solution is growing more attractive every day.

Setting Up Email
Setting up email accounts on the iPhone is quite a pleasant experience, with presets for Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Mobile Me and AOL, plus support for any POP3, IMAP or Exchange email account.

To get started setting up an email account with one of the presets, simply pres son your selected email provider in the Add Account menu, enter your information and press Save. If you get a pop-up error message saying that your iPhone can’t connect it, it may be because of the Firewall on your Wi-Fi network. Try again without SSL switched on, but that will decrease the level of security on your account.

To set up a POP3 or IMAP email account, it can be done but things are slightly more complicated. Click on the Other button at the bottom of the Add Account screen, then select the appropriate option (for most ISP email accounts you’ll need to choose POP). Apart from typing in your name, email address and account description, you’ll need to obtain a number of settings from your email provider to complete the Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server sections. Once you’ve done that, hit Save to go to your inbox.

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