How can I email from my default email without having to switch from my icloud account.

Question

I have an iphone 4s and I have made my default email a gmail account.  However, whenever I go to send an email from my phone, it defaults to my icloud account.  I can switch it manually but why should I have to switch manually to a non default email account every time I want to send an email?  Is there a way to send emails with my gmail account being the default address being sent from instead of my icloud email?  I have already made gmail my default email and my iphone mail app has no problem uploading inbox emails.

Answer 1

IMAP is the mail protocol that allows you to delete a message one place and have it delete everywhere else. iCloud uses IMAP, so it should be working. If the messages never delete, then something may be incorrect in the settings. The easiest thing to do with iCloud is to logout of the account on every device, and then login again. (Another common problem with iCloud email is people often have two Apple IDs, and thus may have two iCloud email accounts. If you get confused about which one you're using, you may think you've deleted email when you actually haven't.)
If the iCloud messages do ultimately delete across all devices, then it could be that some devices aren't set to "Push" but are instead set to "Fetch" the newest info from the server. Fetch can be set to as long as an hour between check-ins.
The same holds true for Windstream if she's using an IMAP account there, too. If it's a POP account, then deleting a message one place will never delete it anywhere else—that's the way POP works.