I have Mail to auto check every 15 mins, but it's not doing it at all. Anyone know what's up with this? I have 4 IMAP accounts.
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I have 3 accounts.
The same thing is happening to me. Just woke up - no emails. Set to check every 15 mins. Went into Mail, clicked get mail, and i had 6. Why didn't these come through?
these people have the same problems it seems:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5930875
The same thing is happening to me. Just woke up - no emails. Set to check every 15 mins. Went into Mail, clicked get mail, and i had 6. Why didn't these come through?
these people have the same problems it seems:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5930875
yea it used to be fine with mine as well, get e-mails throughout the night...
But it seems only when you're using your iPhone does it start checking... or sometimes when you go into the mail app.
But it seems only when you're using your iPhone does it start checking... or sometimes when you go into the mail app.
Yeh, I guess it's the case it only checks when you're using the iPhone - which doesn't make much sense to me at all.
Not true at all, I've had mine on sleep and it notifies me of new mail when it does it's 15 minute check if there's mail there.
Even over night when when it hasn't been touched for hours on end.
Mine doesn't check for mail either 
A lot of people have said it doesn't happen when it's on WiFi/not on WiFi/on EDGE, etc, but mine just doesn't do it period. I am just using a .Mac account.
When I tried Yahoo! push IMAP it worked perfectly. Now if only Y! had IMAP for Mail.app, then we'd be sorted.
A lot of people have said it doesn't happen when it's on WiFi/not on WiFi/on EDGE, etc, but mine just doesn't do it period. I am just using a .Mac account.
When I tried Yahoo! push IMAP it worked perfectly. Now if only Y! had IMAP for Mail.app, then we'd be sorted.
This seems to have worked (for now, but I've turned my phone off before..), however it is now not alerting me properly to new mail; no sound, no vibrate, and I have both of these set.
Hmm..
Or just press and hold the home button while in mail to make the mail app restart (when you return to the main menu you can let go of the button). Much shorter then power cycling and just as effective of a solution when mail fails to autocheck.
This needs serious attention. I mean, firmware builds are supposed to get stronger, more secure, and better. Not introduce bugs that weren't there before.
If an SDK is going to introduce more and more bugs like this... it can go to hell. I choose functionality and reliability over a friggin voice recorder.
If an SDK is going to introduce more and more bugs like this... it can go to hell. I choose functionality and reliability over a friggin voice recorder.
Sadly, the reality of life is often different in my experience. You just have to hope that any new bug is not as much of a problem as the one it replaces.
I have 4 email accounts (2 IMAP and 2 POP) and all seem to function flawlessly, at the moment.
The default setting for this is off to avoid the heavy cost of data roaming. This setting has no effect on mail collection unless you are abroad.
Do you mean switched on as opposed to being in sleep mode? Nothing is going to get your mail if it's switched off.
I may be wrong because this appears to be a little ambiguous, but to me this reads that to enable email etc whilst abroad turn roaming on. Do you have a link to the original script?
I always have the setting switched off yet my email collection works flawlessly.
No problem. However this is a curious and intriguing situation because several people seem to have difficulties with email collection. We need to keep an eye on it.My bad, sometimes I type before I think what I've actually typed, I've corrected the post,