Is there a way to NOT check one of my two mail accounts automatically?

Question

I have two mail accounts: a personal and work account. I get unending work emails, most of which I don't need to read or respond to. Is there way to get my iPhone to check and alert me when I have new personal mail (like it currently does) but NOT alert me when I get new work emails (which is like every 30 seconds) and show that I have ~50 unread mail messages on the mail screen (all of which are from the work email account). If I have 49 unread work emails and 1 unread personal email I'd rather the mail icon show "1" than "50".
Thanks.

Answer 1

yup, i started a thread too here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7608574#7608574
this is my similar issue, even on manual, when a push email comes in and you check it, it goes and looks for the manual accounts too even though you didnt want to
*Here is my problem I see with multiple accounts on the iphone.*
*I have an exchange account on "push" for my day job and I keep my 2 aol accounts on "manual" be cause I don't get that much mail from them. The problem is every time I get a push email to my exchange account and I click on the mail icon to check it, it goes and searches for new mail on the aol accounts too. This is killing my battery also because I get a lot of push mail which is quick receive and respond yet it takes a minute or 2 of battery battery because it always goes out and looks for my aol mail.*
*I think the manual check should only check if you actually click on the aol account you want to manually check. I have it so when I click on mail it goes right to the exchange inbox, yet it still checks the aol mail.*
Message was edited by: BriChi