Problem with iPad Mail Client

Most people have a normal mail server, meaning that when you login with your mail client, it starts up IMAP processes on your mail server to give you the email.
So ... I use my desktop, to login to read mail mostly. I use Thunderbird because it lets you control somethings that the Mail app on the Mac does not ... like the number of cached connections. In an enterprise context, both Apple's and Microsoft's mail clients are total pigs. They start up these IMAP connections and they never drop them, putting a huge load and creating tons of connections so that email users can check their email ever few minutes. This is a very poor design.
Thunderbird allows you to take the client offline so that those connections are cleared and the resources on the server are not monopolized, but Outlook Express and Mail do not ... at least as far as I can tell.
So ... when you check your mail you create these connections, and then when you check your mail from the your iPad, your double what you just probably have running from your desktop, or laptop, or whatever computer you normally use and are not at because you are using your iPad.
When you switch from the iPad Mail app to another app, it does not clear those connections, and it maintains the connection even if you are not using it.
Is there some way to configure this OFF, so that your mail is not maintaining these connections?
And ... don't tell me to go into
Settings
-> Mail/Contacts/Calendars
-> Fetch New Data (turn push off) (switch schedule to manual)
-> Advanced
-> <individual account>
->(switch to manual)
Which is by the way a very complex thing to do, remember, and configure ... but it does not work as far as I can tell.
Companies, at least many of them in an enterprise context need these things to not waste cycles and resources on their servers ... not to mention ISP's and websites don't like it either.
Why is it that a free mail client like Thunderbird can do better than both Apple and Microsoft at solving this problem ... though it is not completely solved by either?

bruxxx wrote:
Why is it that a free mail client like Thunderbird can do better than both Apple and Microsoft at solving this problem ... though it is not completely solved by either?
Because most users have no idea what cached connections are. They just want it to work.
Perhaps you should submit a bug report to Apple

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