Life was definitely much simpler as far as email goes when I had my IMAP account!
But that cost me over $100/year and had a lot of controls and settings. The POP3 accounts are free at GoDaddy if you have web hosting through them, but they have almost no controls and few settings. As they say, you get what you pay for! I did a few restores for new iThingies during the IMAP days, and I think those went well as far as email goes. This was the first restore for a new device after switching to POP3, so I agree it would be better to take care of the old archived emails via GoDaddy itself prior to doing restore. Lessen learned.
Don’t Forget to Tell Your iPhone to Forward SMS Text Messages to a New iPad
BTW, since I rarely buy new iThingies due to being retired and having to watch my spending more than when I was still working, I typically go a few years between new devices. When you get older your brain tends to forget about the fine details more so than when you were a young pup! It is always interesting to do one of these restore (setting up new) device procedures as invariably I will forget about at least one detail from the last one I did, then have to spend time trying to trace down what the heck went wrong. Here is one of those things that went wrong this time, and I hope it might help to remind those of us who get forgetful sometimes of this thing we have to do to get Messages to work with a new iPad that doesn't have a cellular radio.
After setting up my new iPad mini 5, I soon learned that using it to send SMS text messages to friends was not working. My new mini 5 is WiFi only, no cellular radio. iPads have an app called iMessage (now just Message) that sends Apple's proprietary messages between other iThingies, but if you want to send/receive traditional SMS text messages with Android (or other non-Apple) devices, it won't do that without some tweaking. Restoring a new device won’t necessarily result in your new device working with SMS text messaging. Restoring an existing device from a backup probably will work, assuming it did when the backup was made, but only if you don't change the name of the device.
When I set up my new mini 5, I restored the latest backup I had made for my Pro. My Pro was named
Jack's iPad Pro 9.7. I keep the names simple and descriptive so it is easy to know which device it refers to. Immediately after finishing the set up and restore on my new mini 5, I changed its name to
Jack's miniPad5. Therein lies the reason that SMS text messaging wouldn't work. I forgot that to set up SMS text messaging on an iPad without cellular radio (and phone service) requires an iPhone with phone service and it also requires that you go into the iPhone's settings and specifically tell the iPhone to share its phone service with the iPad. It took me a while to figure out that I had to go to my iPhone XR, and do this:
Settings-->Messages-->Text Message Forwarding--> and turn on the toggle switch for
Jack's miniPad5.
Otherwise the iPhone will have no idea that there is a new iPad and you want to forward SMS text messages to it.