IPhone just quits receiving email

I have two accounts set up on my iPhone, the Mobileme for personal and my work email. I set the work email to sync unlimited and Mobileme automatically has its own settings. Recently, it just stopped getting email or syncing what I was doing on my desktop from either my personal or work email. It just says connecting forever. So I thought maybe my work email was overloading it, so I limited the work email to only sync 1 month back. That fixed the problem immediately and emails started coming in. Today it again stopped syncing my work email or personal email. I restarted the phone and I was good to go again. Does anyone know a solution to this problem. I emailed Apple and they say I I can reset the cache on the phone but I can only find that for my browser. Anyone got any suggestions?

Here's a good troubleshooting guide:
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For more information, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
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Morning Chris Lee 310,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For troubleshooting on this, take a look at this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3899
For more troubleshooting on this, take a look at this article:
Setting up Mail
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/mail/
Hope this helps,
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