iPad Mail Pet Peeves

Apple has made some significant improvements to the Mail app over time. I appreciate that I can have multiple email accounts and view them all simultaneously with All Inboxes, and I like the threaded conversations that make following a stream of messages more efficient.

However, I am not a fan of the spam. When I set up my email accounts using POP or IMAP, I get all of the email messages in my inbox--including spam messages about low interest loans, and guaranteed penis enlargment. If I go look at those same email accounts in Microsoft Outlook, those messages don't make it to my inbox because the Outlook junk mail filter catches them and filters them to a separate box.

I also don't appreciate the lack of groups or distribution lists. I have a variety of distribution lists set up in Outlook that I use frequently, but with the iPad Mail client I have to manually add each individual email address every time I want to send an email. It would also be nice to be able to do simple things like make text bold or italic, or insert links into the message, or add file attachments.

The Mail app is decent, and it is way better than it was in previous version of iOS, but it still has a long way to go to rival what I am accustomed to with Outlook 2010.