This week's tips help you take the reigns of your mobile Mail app. We'll show you how to use the email headers to manage old and new contacts, how to save images sent to you in an email to your Photo Album and how to print emails and their attachments.

View Limited Email Headers in the Mail App

The Mail app on iOS devices has a limited view of email headers than the desktop version of Mail running on Mac OS X. The iOS version of mail can only show you a list of recipients in the From and To fields of an e-mail header. If you scroll to the top of any e-mail message you'll see the word Details or Hide. Tap either of these to view recipients of an e-mail or hide them respectively.

Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Using Email Headers to Manage Contacts

While viewing the header of an email in the Mail app on an iOS device you can add new contacts, manage existing ones, or perform a plethora of tasks to contact someone already in your contacts with the e-mail address you examine. You can examine tje recipient of an email by tapping their name or address in the From or To fields.

If the email address doesn't belong to one in your address book you can either add it to a completely new contact or you can add the email to an existing one. The latter is handy, if for example, if you have a member in your Contacts that changes their last name.

Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Save Email Images

Imagine that one of your family members sent you an email with a ton of photos in it. You can save those photos to your iOS device's Photo Album by taping the image and selecting Save. The image will be saved to the Photo album. Repeat the process for any other photos you want to keep.

Note that this feature is a basic part of iOS and supported by most apps so give it a try with images inside of other apps to see what happens.

Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Printing Emails or Attachments

We think this is an awesome feature and the results are better than we expected when we first tried it out. If you are reading an email, you can print it out by opening it for reading and then tapping the backwards pointing arrow at the bottom of the view and then selecting Print.

You can print an attachment by opening it for viewing and taping .

The printed results in both cases were a lot better than we expected. Try it out we think you'll be pleased with the results.

Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

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