Have to turn phone off and on to get Comcast email

I can't get my Comcast email to "fetch" without turning my phone off and then on again. Is anyone else experiencing this? Any suggestions?
I have followed apple's and comcast's instructions carefully in setting it up on my iPhone so don't know what the problem is...
Thanks!

Same problem Willow. Fetch doesn't work for more than an hour on any of my POP accounts. It appears to be a problem with the software.
This is completely whacked, but here is what I did and it turned all my POP accounts into Push, so I get email immediately.
I have Comcast for my wife, and still am trying to get my friends and customers to migrate to my Verizon account. I also have a company email which is Exchange, but I currently only use POP here. I have a free gmail account (it's not push), and a Mobile me account.
I set up Verizon and Comcast to forward to my Mobile Me account (60 day trial). No joy here, simply wouldn't work reliably if at all.
So after spending several hours today of trial and error I found that by forwarding Verizon and Comcast to my Gmail account and then from there forwarding to my Mobile me account using my company's server for the outgoing mail, mail from all accounts except that from my company's server arrive immediately.
I have instructed my customers to use the Verizon or Comcast account as my preference, so it's not critical to have that account pushed. My company's server is Exchange, so I could at some point convert that on my phone and that email would be pushed as well. I have Gmail set up to enable POP and IMAP. When messages are accessed with POP...keep Gmail's copy in the inbox. When forwarding to Mobile Me, it's set up to delete Gmail's copy so I don't get duplicates
A caveat for me and anyone else who might try this with Verizon (not for you if you use Comcast). Verizon does not keep local copies of messages that have been forwarded. If the message coming into my Verizon account is critical, I have to forward it back to myself from Mobile Me where it ends up now, to have a local copy on my Mac at home. Comcast does allow a local copy so when I'm home I get 2 copies of the same message using Apple Mail.
This is all pretty whacky, but until Apple gets the next software iteration out it works for me.
I'll keep you all posted, but for now it's working fine.
CD3
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