Checking mail manually

Hi - I have set mail preferences to check for mail Manually and turned 'push ' off in settings>mail etc..>
But when I open mail inbox, it checks for mail automatically. Can I turn this off properly ?
Thanks

Not unless you delete the mail account off.
Mine does the same, only when you go in to the mail icon. Theory is you would only press that if you wanted to check mail or read old mail so will obviously look for new mails.

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Then to check for mail you would have to click on the Get Mail icon in the mail browser window:
which is the icon that looks like an envelope.

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Before downloading to Mail I prefer to check what is on the server so I can delete unwanted professional email and have only the ones I want come through to my computer. This has worked very well in the past when I've set Mail to check for new mail "Manually". But in recent years and OS's it fetches mail without waiting for me to click the "Get Mail" icon.
The only work around I've found is to un-click the "Enable this account" button in Mail Preferences. This is a royal pain and takes extra time going back and forth from my email to Account Preferences, and when the account is not "enabled" I cannot see all of it's content in Mail. Sometimes I have to turn off wifi to view my content without having it fetch unwanted email, another nuisance work around.
Why does Apple have a "Check Mail Manually" setting if it does not work??? Why does Apple assume everyone wants to download all of the email that arrives on the server? What happened to giving us a choice? Please bring back the user-friendly Apple that I grew to appreciate and now miss.

Do you mean this happens once when you launch Mail.app, or it continues to happen periodically after you've launched the application and while it continues to run?
If it's the former, this is a known issue that Apple introduced with 10.9 Mail.app; you can try filing a bug at https://bugreport.apple.com - they closed mine as a duplicate of an existing bug (14155759) when i filed 11 months ago and proceeded to do nothing about it through the 10.9.1 - 10.9.5 releases.

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I only receive e-mails if I touch the mail icon and the iPhone checks for mail. No alerts come through on its own, as it did on my original iPhone.
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Again, thanks for the replies.
What's strange is that I 'handed down' my original iPhone to my son, and I had installed 2.0 on that phone - which obviously has the same settings options (his is set on manual) - and he still gets e-mails immediately. I think I'm missing something.
Also - is MobileMe the only solution? In order to have near immediate e-mails you must pay for that service?
Thanks for the help. I guess I knew less about the upgrade than I thought.

Can't Check Mail Manually

I searched all over for the answer but can't find it, so i am hoping i hasn't been posted before.
Basically I want to only have Mail check my mail when I ask it to. For years I had it set up to check every minute and I was happy with that. But in the interest of efficiency, I want to only check my mail when I personally click on the "Get Mail" Button on the top left of the app.
I have gone into the preferences and have set the "Check for new messages" to Manually but it isn't working. I am not running Lion yet, but this was also the same issue in Tiger and Leopard years ago. Now I am trying to fix it for good in Snow Leopard in both my '07 macbook and brand new mac mini.
Is anyone else running into this problem and having the messages still come through every minute even though you have set the preferences correctly (to manually) and restarted your computer, etc.
Just so you know, I also tried "hourly" and the messages still come through every minute or really every time I get one. Thanks for the help.

Go to Mail > Preferences > General and go to "Check for new messages:" and change it to "Manually". It should check email only when you click the Get New Messages button.
There is an outbox, but it's not a place to store emails like in Outlook. If you want to write an email but not send it, write the email (you don't have to address it if you don't want to), and go to File > Save. This will save the email in the DRAFT mailbox. So you definitely don't have to send what you write right away--Creating a Draft is the way to go.

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Just over the past couple of months, about 1 out of 10 times after I unlock my 3G iPhone, it checks my email in the background without my entering the Mail application.
In Settings I have check mail set to manual in all occurrences. I have had an iPhone since Day 1 and have always had mail on manual check. This has not been a problem until recently.
The result is miserably slow performance while mail is checking in background.
For example, just now:
1. iPhone not in use all afternoon. I pick it up, press the round button, then unlock it.
2. Press Phone icon, find contact, touch phone number to initiate call
3. During call, I have to check my Calendar. I press round button, but it takes 10 second to bring me to Main Menu screen.
4. I press Calendar icon, and it takes 20 seconds to display my calendar
5. Just as my Calendar displays, iPhone "dings" with incoming email alert tone
6. I finish phone call. Open Mail application, and sure enough, I have new mail.
In this case and all others, I never touch the Mail icon and have all settings to check mail manually.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Is this a bug or a feature?

Almost.
The iPhone is designed in nature to be 'always on' i.e. connected to the internet and active all the time. This particular topic has been raised before and I recall had to be 'pruned' of some of the more vociferous comments.
It is as it is, and more sending of feedback is the best option as without such feedback in volume, Apple are not likely to view it as a significant requirement. I do not have knowledge of Apple's plans but given most people have data plans such that email volume is not a price sensitive issue, it will in my view, be way down the list on development priorities.

When opening my Outlook 2010 with new added e-mail account with Exchange Server, I have to click manually on my standard e-mail account for checking mail

When opening my Outlook 2010 with new added e-mail account with Exchange Server supplied by my employer, I have to click manually on my standard e-mail account for checking mail. Do I have to upgrade my Microsoft Office 2010 or how can I make my Outlook
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Sincerely
Ketil Hothorp

Hello Ketil,
Good Day...
Seems to be the Issue is Syncing emails, now I would recommend you to Remove and Add the Account and try and check if the emails are getting synced automatically.
Hope this is with Single User. If it is with Multiple Users then we need to check the permissions assigned.
Regards,
Praveen

Iphone automatically checks mail even though it's set to "manual" check

In settings > mail, Auto-check is set to manual, but my phone still vibrates and beeps periodically -- even when it has been asleep and I'm not touching -- announcing that new mail has arrived.
I'm using it to check a yahoo and a gmail account. Why is it still checking mail automatically?

Actually I just figured this out myself. You can turn it off by going to
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Treo keeps checking mail even though set to manual update

I have my email update set to manual. But my 800W keeps checking for email. It's running my battery down. Short of deleting the email account and starting over, what am I doing wrong?
Background: When I first got the phone, I stupidly set it to check mail every few minutes until I realized that ran my battery down in about 5 hours. I set it to 'once per day' and it worked fine. Then a couple of weeks ago, I temporarily set it to 5 minutes or something like that for a specific situation. I then tried to change it back to once per day and/or manual. The value shows 'once per day' on the options page. But it ignores it now. Not sure how often it checks. But i get email notifications almost instantly every time an email arrives. And my battery is dying again. I've tried changing it around several times, rebooting, etc.
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Post relates to: Treo 800w (Sprint)

Thanks for the response. I had long since tried everything you suggested.
I did quite a bit more testing and googling, and I think I've resolved it. But there are definitely some serious problems (My feeling is that these are code defects) in the 800w that caused this.
1) I created a new email account on my 800w, taking all of the default values
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3) I have my own hosting business and host my own email pop server. So I have easy access to the POP logs. Here is a snippit from the pop logs with "refresh rate = 1 day":
12/12/08 21:07:31 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:08:40 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:09:52 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:11:04 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:12:16 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:13:28 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:14:40 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:15:53 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
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7) Ok.. this is the defect in the code: That checkbox was OFF, and the entry field was gray. That obvious has to mean that I don't want to autocheck anything. (and that is the default way it comes up on a new account, which makes sense). But it appears the checkbox is being IGNORED in the code. It was indeed checking. And I suspect the empty grayed 'minutes' field was probably returning 0 or something like that to the code. So ignoring the checkbox and having a zero minutes refresh rate, it was probably defaulting to a minimum of 1 minute. But it should NOT be refreshing at all with that checkbox off.
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12/12/08 22:18:34 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.*******************.com
12/12/08 22:34:09 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.*******************.com
12/12/08 22:49:46 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.*******************.com
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10) So in summary, you have one scheduler where the user can set a value that is completely ignored. And you have a buried checkbox that defaults to off and the code apparently doesn't check it and assumes it's always on.
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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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