Am probably going to get an iPad when the new ones come out, but just had a thought about using them for email.

At the moment, my wife and I have separate accounts on the mac, as much as anything to keep out email separate.

Is this possible on an iPad, or can every user see everyone else's email?

You can have multiple email accounts being read on one ipad but they're not passworded from each other so you can read all of them.

Best solution is to put a link on the desktop for webmail, or ofcoarse jailbreak.

Thanks - that's what I figured. Hadn't really thought about it until the other day - seeing as there must be plenty of households that share an iPad as they do a computer, user accounts seems like such an obvious thing to have. Maybe iOS6.

You'll just have to get your wife her own iPad

Buy an iPad 3 and give her your iPad 2, problem solved

or depending one what email you use there may be an 'app for that'. there is a gmail app which I each of you
could sign in/out as you used it.