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Display New E-mails Only From Default Mail Account?

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pete78

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Jan 14, 2011
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Hi all,

So I just got my Verizon iPhone, and I love it!

My work e-mail account, which runs on Exchange (ActiveSync) has been added to my iPhone and works great. It is my default mail account, and it is set to PUSH (not Fetch) as I need to have immediate access to these e-mails given that it's work related.

I have also added my AOL mail account, and plan to add Gmail as well.

My question is sort of two-fold.

1. On the Home screen of my iPhone, is there a way for it to display only new messages from my default account (the Exchange account), and not the other mail accounts (AOL and GMAIL). For example, this morning I woke up and the "Mail" icon on my Home screen had "10" on it, representing 10 new e-mails. However, when I clicked on the "Mail" icon, only 5 of those new e-mails were from my work account (Exchange), the other 5 were from AOL.

I would like to know if there is a way to modify the settings so that the pop-up on the "Mail" icon on the Home screen only displays the amount of new e-mails on my Default mail account (Exchange), and not AOL or GMAIL.

2. Is there a way to apply PUSH only to my default account (Exchange), and do Manual Fetch for the AOL and GMAIL account? If so, I suppose this could solve my problem described above, as well as possibly conserving battery life.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!
 
pete78 said:
1. On the Home screen of my iPhone, is there a way for it to display only new messages from my default account (the Exchange account), and not the other mail accounts (AOL and GMAIL). For example, this morning I woke up and the "Mail" icon on my Home screen had "10" on it, representing 10 new e-mails. However, when I clicked on the "Mail" icon, only 5 of those new e-mails were from my work account (Exchange), the other 5 were from AOL.

I would like to know if there is a way to modify the settings so that the pop-up on the "Mail" icon on the Home screen only displays the amount of new e-mails on my Default mail account (Exchange), and not AOL or GMAIL.

2. Is there a way to apply PUSH only to my default account (Exchange), and do Manual Fetch for the AOL and GMAIL account? If so, I suppose this could solve my problem described above, as well as possibly conserving battery life.
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1-3: Not without jailbreaking, which I don't know has been done on a Verizon model (or if it makes a difference which carrier the phone is on). You either get all or nothing with iOS Mail.
 
Pared said:
Just set up the personal accounts to fetch manually.
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How do I do this? The way I'm looking at the Settings, there is only one way to set how Mail is retrieved that applies to all of the Mail accounts. How do I, for example, set AOL or GMAIL to only FETCH MANUALLY, while keeping PUSH for my default account (Exchange)? Thanks.
 
pete78 said:
How do I do this? The way I'm looking at the Settings, there is only one way to set how Mail is retrieved that applies to all of the Mail accounts. How do I, for example, set AOL or GMAIL to only FETCH MANUALLY, while keeping PUSH for my default account (Exchange)? Thanks.
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Click on advanced under fetch new data and it'll list each one.
 
UngratefulNinja said:
Click on advanced under fetch new data and it'll list each one.
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Hmmm, I am in Settings ---> Mail/Contacts ----> Fetch New Data

All I see is Push (on/off) at the top. Underneath is Fetch (with the ability to set it to manual, every 15 minutes, etc...)

I don't see an "Advanced" button. I will keep looking though. I'm assuming the Verizon iPhone would be not different than the ATT version in this respect.
 
pete78 said:
Hmmm, I am in Settings ---> Mail/Contacts ----> Fetch New Data

All I see is Push (on/off) at the top. Underneath is Fetch (with the ability to set it to manual, every 15 minutes, etc...)

I don't see an "Advanced" button. I will keep looking though. I'm assuming the Verizon iPhone would be not different than the ATT version in this respect.
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Do settings/mail contacts/fetch new data/scroll to bottom to advanced. I'm on 4.0, maybe it's changed in other versions?
 
UngratefulNinja said:
Do settings/mail contacts/fetch new data/scroll to bottom to advanced. I'm on 4.0, maybe it's changed in other versions?
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Yea, I'm on 4.2.6. I just don't see "advanced"; it would suck if that option is not available on the Verizon iPhone.
 
In the end, what I may do is just delete the AOL and GMAIL account, and just keep the Exchange account so that's the only thing coming into the "Mail" iPhone account. Then I will get some third-party app to retrieve my AOL and Gmail when needed, like iGmail. That's the only super clean solution that I can think of to my issue with the unified inbox.
 
I would think that having "Push" ON and the Fetch settings to "Manually" you wouldn't be getting the AOL or Gmail emails until you refresh (get mail)...unless your Gmail is setup as "Exchange".
 
pete78 said:
Yea, I'm on 4.2.6. I just don't see "advanced"; it would suck if that option is not available on the Verizon iPhone.
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It's on the Verizon iPhone, it's on mine. You just have to scroll down a little to see "Advanced" in the Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Fetch New Data, it's at the bottom under "Manually".
 
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