How to Uninstall the (always-on) Mail App?

[PrayForDeath]

I want to remove the Mail app that comes with the iPad. Is this possible? My iPad is jailbroken (ios5.0.1), and the Mail app always seems to be running.

I don't really need it, and I wanna free up as much ram as possible. If anyone knows a way to disable/remove this app please let me know.


p.s: I have an iPad 1

 

[seong]

I want to remove the Mail app that comes with the iPad. Is this possible? My iPad is jailbroken (ios5.0.1), and the Mail app always seems to be running.

I don't really need it, and I wanna free up as much ram as possible. If anyone knows a way to disable/remove this app please let me know.


p.s: I have an iPad 1

I don't think you can. Why don't you use SBSettings to free up the RAM?
If I were you, I wouldn't mess with the default apps. If it's confirmed that there are no side effects from deleting Mail.app, then go ahead and do it.

 

[Night Spring]

I think you can use backgrounder to prevent apps from running in the background. So you could set Mail to not run in the background. Haven't tried it recently, but I think this was possible.

 

[PrayForDeath]

I don't think you can. Why don't you use SBSettings to free up the RAM?
If I were you, I wouldn't mess with the default apps. If it's confirmed that there are no side effects from deleting Mail.app, then go ahead and do it.

I already do, but Mail re-runs immediately and seems to stay on no matter what.

I think you can use backgrounder to prevent apps from running in the background. So you could set Mail to not run in the background. Haven't tried it recently, but I think this was possible.

Thanks, I will give this a try.

 

[Kc2kzz]

Couldn't you log in via ssh and just delete the app?

 

[PrayForDeath]

Couldn't you log in via ssh and just delete the app?

I can, but is that safe? I mean, the mail app is deeply integrated in the OS, so I'm not sure if it's ok to just remove the mobilemail.app entirely.

 

[newdeal]

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Rename the app to something else and see if your iPad gets messed up. That way you can revert back by renaming it back