Where is the auto check for Mail?

Before the 2.0 update, I could set the Mail app for auto check every 30 minutes or so, not in 2.0, I cannot find this option any more. Can I still make this setting somewhere?
André

The setting is in Settings > Fetch New Data. Set Fetch to 30 min (other options are 15 min and hourly).
You'll want Push set to OFF, unless you have a need for it and your email account supports it (MobileMe, Yahoo, or an MS Exchange server do); push uses a lot of battery power, so if you don't have a need for it, leave it off.
Hope this helps...

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This is how I fixed it on my new iPhone 5S. Using the standard yahoo setting on my phone.
You will have to access "managing your app passwords" on your account profile for yahoo. Generate password for your app. For example: "My iPhone 5S'
Go to your Iphone and set up your yahoo mail account on your phone the normal way and you have to use the generated password. instead of the yahoo account password.
source:
http://virtualizeme.net/iphone-5-yahoo-mail-server-unavailable-fix/
I hope this helps,
cheers

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It's kind of disconcerting when manually checking for mail not to see the gears spinning. It's like the App is dead. Or the Internet is gone.
Or have I missed something. Is there a way to bring them back - to see them working as the App. checks for mail?

I too miss them. Can't really tell if it is checking for new mail or not. Hope we can find a way to bring them back.

Where has the 'checking for mail' icon gone?

Whenever I used to check my mail manually (Comand-Shift-N) an icon to the left of the Inbox would come up to show that mail was checking. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of triangles in a circle that would spin while the process was being executed. It's disappeared now - nothing come up and there's no way of knowing whether Mail is checking for mail or has finished doing so now. Any ideas where this visual indication of when Mail is busy checking for mail might have gone and how I can get it back?
By the way, what do you call that icon - the one that comes up when a process is being exectued to show you so?

Yes, that's right - no, it doesn't appear in the mailbox list. Where it used to be, e.g. if you're in Inbox and it's darkened to show it's the folder being viewed, it used to be the right of of 'Inbox' - where, when Mail is NOT checking for mail, there is a circle with a number in the middle of it to show how many unread messages are in the folder... It's that circle (the one showing the number of unread messages when Mail is idle) that used to turn into two spinning triangles when Mail was checking for mail. It's gone, but the circle displaying the number of unread messages is still there.
It certainly is checking for mail, and receiving everything and doing everything else perfectly. In fact, that's the problem - it's such a reliable and well-behaved program that it seems such a waste of time to worry about silly, niggling little things. But still... Would be nice to have it back. I liked it and miss it.
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My iPhone is not receiving mail but these messages continue to flash at the bottom of the screen: Checking for messages, Updated just now, checking for messages, etc. After a minute or so it will flash downloading 1 - 32 messages but nothing is received

My iPhone is not receiving mail but the following messages continue to flash over and over at the bottom of the screen: "Checking for messages, Updated just now, Checking for messages", etc. After a minute or so it will flash downloading 1 - 32 messages but nothing is received and then the "Checking for Messages," etc. starts back again. I turned the phone off for 30+ minutes and also tried to reset it, but the problem continues. Any ideas on how to solve the problem?

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On the iOS array of devices, you need to make sure all of the settings are right. I have found an official Verizon webpage for setting it up on Apple devices right here:
http://support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=39930
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Whenever I ope my mail app and read the bottom left column, I see the spinner and 'checking for mail'. Then I see 'sending 1 of 2'. Then the bar fills in, as though 2 mails have been sent. There is no mail sent. Then later I open the app again and it starts all over.

Hello TheTiger81: You made a valiant effort to help me. Yet I went back, opened my mail and the same thing happened all over again. I appreciate your trying to get me beyond this. Makes me sorry I complained about my iPad that kept turning off. This spinner problem seems worse, as I feel it will take a toll on the battery. Thanks very much.
And if you have any other suggestions, I will try them. Do you think I should try your suggestion more than just once?

HT5362 How do I turn off notifications for Software Updates? 'App Store' doesn't show in the list of notification apps. I want the background checks for updates, just not the notifications.

How do I turn off notifications for Software Updates?
In the 'Notifications' section of the 'System Preferences' app, there is no tab for managing the notifications of System Updates nor App Store.
Hey--- I like auto-checking for updates, and hey--- I like auto-downloading them in the background.
BUT I do not like being notified of updates in the middle of working! Especially when it's iTunes updates. Grrrr.
Any chance this is easy and I just missed it?
THANKS COMMUNITY!

Settings > Notification Center > Mail > Select the mail account (if more than one) > Alert Sound > None

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However, when I now miss-spell a word, it gets underlined in red (check spelling as you type).
This where I need educating. I would have presumed that I could click the underlined word and be shown spelling suggestions (because I get this option in so many other software packages).
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Checking for Mail ... forever?

For the past 2 days both my iPad 2 and my iPhone 4S have been in a constant state of "Checking for Mail . . ."
I've deleted the accounts and reinstalled them, which has cleared out stuck messages that I had deleted on my iMac at home. But then the next time I open I get the same thing.
I was thinking it was software related and was going to restore from backup on the iPhone when I realized I had the same problem with the iPad. That has to be something with the account, right? It doesn't matter how I access, home, wifi, or wireless. And it happens on multiple email accounts.
Anybody seen this before and have a suggestion?

I'm also one of the seemingly thousands of people who suffer from the problem where my iPhone hangs on "Checking Email" when checking my Pop and IMAP email accounts. This started after the 2.0 upgrade and was NOT fixed in the 2.0.1 release!
I've tried switching push on and push off. I've tried restoring my phone completely. Nothing seems to work as a permanent solution.
The only thing that temporarily works is turning my phone off and then on or holding the home button for 7-8 seconds. Who wants to do that every time they want to check their mail?!?!?!
But even then it only works for about an hour ish. Actually, I've seen it work for anywhere between 5 minutes and 4 hours before hanging.
This is a huge problem that a lot of people are suffering from. Please fix it!!

Mail app crashing when it checks for mail

Hi.
This is becoming quite frustrating. I open mail, and it's set to check for mail every few minutes, so immediately it checks for mail on my two POP accounts.
As the little things next to each account appear and start turning the application crashes out. Numerous restarts show the same thing.
PLEASE let me know what I can do to fix this. I dont have webmail access for the one account and need to get lots of work done.
Perhaps reinstall the mail application? But how?
Regards,
Simon

Hi Simon.
Problems arising right after installing a system update are usually the result of some filesystem corruption that should have been fixed first, or not having installed the update properly (e.g. applications running while installing it), or having ignored Apple’s “Important: Please read before installing” warnings, etc.
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1. Either tell Mail to go offline immediately after opening it, or shut down your Internet connection and open Mail afterwards.
2. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail and disable junk mail filtering.
3. Go online again.
Reading your last post, however, it looks like Mail crashes even when offline, so the problem must be something else.
When an application crashes (i.e. quits unexpectedly), the system writes information about the state of the application at the moment of the crash to a log file. That information is called a crash report and makes troubleshooting easier. In order to find and post the relevant part of the crash report here, proceed as follows:
1. Open ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail.crash.log. The whole crash log appears in a Console window (you can also open that file with any text editor). It may contain many crash reports. We only want the latest, which is located at the bottom of the file.
2. Look for a line that begins with “Date/Time:” as close to the bottom as possible, and another that says “Thread N Crashed:”, where N is a number. Select everything from the “Date/Time:” line to the lines immediately following “Thread N Crashed:”. Copy that text and paste it in your post. Do not post the whole crash log, and do not include anything beyond the lines immediately following “Thread N Crashed:” either, just the relevant part.
Take a look at the following thread for examples of what a crash report looks like:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=466701
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

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Hello SuzMiller
Check out the article for the troubleshooting steps for issues with email on your iPhone and iPad.
iOS: Troubleshooting Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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-Norm G.

Where are the emoticons in Mac Mail?

Where are the emoticons in Mac Mail 5.2 on OS 10.7.3?

I used colon parentheses with the smiley emoticon which is the normal code for a smiley. It works on this forum. I used to type these in all the time on Eudora so I'm familiar with the different combinations.
I added a space after it in the system preferences/language popup and sent myself another letter with it included and it still doesn't work in Mac mail (I added a space before and after it in MacMail). but it does work in TextEdit now.
Yes, "use symbol and text substution" is clicked.
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Where is the auto check for Mail?

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