Hi Marlene, Sorry to hear about your troubles. I'm with Westnet and I've found the best way to handle emails is to log onto webmail (for Westnet that is webmail.westnet.com.au). I can then quickly run my eye down the list of emails without having to down load them, delete the ones I do not want to read, and download those that I want on my computer for some reason.
Much faster than using Outlook or Mail. Regards, Michael Hawkins. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlene Oostryck" <oostr...@optusnet.com.au> To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au> Sent: Monday, 14 March, 2011 8:12:39 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Travels with my iPad Hello All I have just returned from a month's cruising and 5 days in China - with mixed results using my brand new iPad. (5 countries,11 ports so no sim card). Downloading photos/videos from 2 new cameras ( a Canon Powershot G12 and a Nikon D7000) at the end of each day was great and enabled adjustments to be made to camera settings the next day. Whiling away long hours at airports was a breeze with games and books loaded before I left. Emails were not so successful. All during the voyage the ship "Diamond Princess" had great problems with internet connections and it was quite common for 1 email to take up to 100 minutes to send - and then sometimes fail. At $3.95 to log on and then 75 cents per minute - I decided not to help the US economy! Another problem - I unsubscribed from WAMUG the day before I left to cut back on the number of emails received - but did not find out for 3 weeks that there was a verification email after I left - so huge numbers of emails continued to arrive. When in port I was never able to access internet cafes until my last few days and a visit to the Apple Store in Beijing - along with half the youth population there. Another complication. On advice from my One-to-One trainer at the Apple Store here in Perth I had changed my email accounts on my iMac (thanks Daniel K) and my iPad from a POP to IMAP account. Optus did not like this so blocked a lot of my emails when they reached a certain number. The email I tried to send from the Beijing Store on 4 Mar came with the message, "Service not available" but was delivered on the 12 March! Optus treated my attempts at SMS the same way - on a pre-paid mobile - some were successful, most failed. I'm off on another cruise in Europe in May/June so hope I can resolve these communication issues. Regards Marlene Oostryck -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
