Keeps checking mail

I think I might have a problem with my iPhone. It checks for mail whenever I use it, regardless of whether I go to the mail app or not. I've checked all of the settings and it's set to manually check for mail and never fetch the mail without me asking it to, but it still does.
Has anybody else had this problem

Add another email account to see if it affects that as well before you delete and re-add the account, switch the current Mail account "off" in Mail.

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First of all, this is Apple Support Communities, and it was made for questions. You can ask as many as you need to, as long as they're in the correct "community".
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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
2) I set the email scheduler refresh rate on the account settings page to 1 day. But I found later that it made no difference what I set it to. Same results
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
4) Note the time between each line. It's basically exactly 1 minute + 10-13 seconds. The 10-13 seconds is the processing of the POP call. When the POP call ends, it waits precisely one minute and checks again. I want to point out that there isn't even an OPTION on the refresh menu on the 800w to refresh once a minute. But it is indisputable from the log on my mail server that this is indeed what is happening. (I set up that pop mailbox specifically for my treo, and no other client mail app is accessing it.)
5) I changed all the values on the refresh time menu, and even turned off 'Send/receive when I send" option. I wasn't sending anyway. But I was just grasping at straws.
6) I then discovered that there are TWO places to set the refresh rate (???? that's a good design????). If you open the inbox and select Delivery Preferences from the menu, there is ANOTHER checkbox to "Connect and check for messages every...." with an entry field to enter the number of minutes.
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.
8) I turned the checkbox ON and set the value to 15 minutes:
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
9) Note that as soon as I checked the checkbox and set the refresh to 15 minutes, that is indeed precisely what I have in my POP log. Oh, yeah... by the way... the much more obvious "Automatic Send/Receive" setting on the account menu is still set to 1 day... (why is that page and option even there???)
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.
I don't need any additional help. It's working now. But I think someone in development needs to take a serious look at how this is working based on my scenario and analysis above.
Thanks.
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