E-mail - can I sometimes use WiFi, sometimes not?

Sorry if this question has already been asked 1,000 times before - it's a very obvious question, but I can't find it on the site anywhere.
I generally check my e-mail on my phone when I'm in a WiFi hotspot (using the messaging app, not a web-based one). This usually works fine - it will use whatever WiFi I happen to be connected to.
However, sometimes I'm nowhere near a WiFi hotspot, in which case I'm quite happy to use 3G instead - asdamobiles.co.uk in my case.
The annoyance is, though, that the message app complains it can't find the WiFi. I can get round this by doing the following whenever I'm away from a WiFi hotspot:
1. Go into messaging
2. Select Options | Settings
3. Select e-mail
4. Select mailboxes
5. For each mailbox I want to check (and I have a few!):
5a. Select the mailbox
5b. Click on Connection settings
5c. Click on incoming e-mail
5d. Scroll down to Access point in use
5e. Change this from "Default connection" to my asdamobiles.co.uk one
5f. Repeat steps 5d and 5e for outgoing e-mail
Then it works. Of course, I have to remember to change it back again afterwards, or it will use that instead of my WiFi when I'm back home or in range of a hotspot.
What I'd like it to do is use whatever my current connection happens to be - I might be connected via WLAN, or I might be browsing the web using the asdamobiles.co.uk connection. How do I get my phone to use whatever connection happens to be available without having to go through the long-winded process above?
Thanks in advance!
Chris.

Thanks, chanchan! That sounds like a solution - but unfortunately I've just tried that, and it's not working for me. The current setting is "Ask when needed", and when I click on this to change it, "Always ask" is indeed an option. But it's already selected - and as soon as I select it again, it reverts to "Ask when needed". And then it doesn't ask - it just uses the WLAN.
In answer to your first point, sometimes I'm already connected, sometimes I'm not. This aspect of it is flaky, too - most of the time, it finds the relevant WLAN and connects, but sometimes it doesn't. For instance, I'm at home now - and when I just tried to read my e-mail, it told me it couldn't find the WLAN. However, the WLAN icon was visible, when I clicked on it, it showed me my home WLAN, and I was able to connect to it. Then when I went into messaging, it *did* get my e-mail. It's yet another intermittent problem I've had out of quite a lot of problems ever since getting this phone, to be honest.
You're quite right that it should use (prompting you first if that's what you've selected) the 3G if it can't find WiFi - it should, ideally, be able to use any available connection in a priority order. It's annoying little things like this, together with the appallingly designed OVI software interfaces, that makes me think this is a great phone let down by poorly thought out software.

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