Multiple email accounts and mail check frequency

If I understand correctly, I can have multiple email accounts on the iPhone, one for work, one personal for example. Is it possible to have distinct update settings, or to easily take one offline? Say I don't want my work email retrieved during the weekend. We're all set to do the family thing with iPhones, but this question came up. With my Treo I frequently turn only one or the other of the accounts on, depending on what I'm doing.
How distinct are the accounts? I assume the mail is in separate accounts as on the desktop?
Thanks

Thanks. That's good news.
In Mail app I have one account, with two different "from" addresses set. I select the proper address depending if I'm writing family or a mailing list. Is that same feature available as it is on the desktop?

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+ theres a option that it will self destruct after 10 wrong pass inputs...
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Hi there, just wondering if anyone cn help with my Mail email issue. I have scoured the net but can't find anyone with the exact same or similar issue.
For simplicitys sake, letes say I have 3 email accounts, [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] I have set alpha to be the default account and this works fine, when I click new email the sender is by default [email protected] The problem arises when I want to send an email from the bravo or charlie accounts. I click on ne email and in the drop down "From" window I select the bravo account I want to send from, compose my email and click send. Away it goes but the recipient recieves and email from "bravo" but with the email address [email protected] and if he hits reply it will come back addressed to [email protected] Arghhhhhhhhhhh! I have tried everything but for the life of me can't see where the issue lies. Incidentally the same happens if I use the charlie account.
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hi,
my program is to get emails from multiple email accounts, and grab the attachments, but it doesn't work properly.
If there's only one email account, it works fine, but if there are more, it looks like that the program always goes into the first mail account to read the messages. i suspect that the 'Server' or the 'Session' are not reset before each connection, i printed out the connected 'Folder', it looks fine, but every time the 'Folder.getMessageCount()' returns the same number of messages as the first email account has.
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// this is to get the folder, mostly 'inbox'
// serverString is like: "protocol://username@host/foldername"
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public static Folder getMailFolder(String serverString, String username, String password) throws Exception {
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//               p.getFileName();
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********* Authenticator *******
class MailAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
private String username;
private String password;
public MailAuthenticator() {
public MailAuthenticator(String username, String password) {
this.username = username;
this.password = password;
public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(this.username, this.password);
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regards

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