Push basically gets messages all the time. Turning it off should give you a "check for mail every" option which you double tap. Once you do, you can select how often you want mail to check for messages.
On 3/2/12, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > you can't disable mail from downloading messages upon launch of the app. It > just assumes, if your opening mail, you want to read mail. So, it retreives > mail from the server without no further prompting. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Mar 2, 2012, at 6:20 PM, "Jessica" <stevies...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I looked under my mail settings but couldn't find that option. >> Unfortunately, the only one I could find even remotely close to that, was >> the preview option, which gave me "every 50, 100, 200 500 or 1000," >> messages I think it was, but nothing about changing how many were >> downloaded, unless I had push enabled, which I don't, sense I don't know >> what it is, and hear it eats up your battery life. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Eric Caron >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 7:20 PM >> Subject: Re: managing mail on the IPhone. >> >> Hi Jessica, >> >> this is not a area I use a lot, as once I got it working I never touched >> the settings again. But, I can offer a few general tips and hopefully >> others can provide you more detailed help. >> >> First, I remember when I first started using my Google account on the >> iPhone there was no delete button. You have a archive button instead. >> Use that as you would delete and don't move things to trash. Someone else >> will need to chime in on how to get the delete button to show up, that is >> if you want it to. some people prefer the Archive button. >> >> In settings you can change the mail behavior for downloading messages. I >> have mine set up to only download when I open Mail. this will give you >> the behavior you want. Again a better expert can walk you through the >> settings but if you look under settings then mail, you should find it. >> >> Hope this info helps a little. >> >> eric Caron >> >> On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Jessica wrote: >> >>> I just tried using my Gmail acount on my IPhone, and everything seemed to >>> be going fairly well, until I started realizing that first of all, I >>> wasn't sure if the "move," command was actually deleting my messages, >>> sense I don't see a button to delete them, so I just told it to move them >>> to my trash folder. 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