Unbelievable frustrations with Mail

[philhh]

Hey all,

I've had problems with mail since the day I purchased my iPhone. I have four accounts, 2*Yahoo accounts, a work account, and a Fastmail account.

Usually after first turning on the phone, the mail works perfectly once or twice. Then when I come back later to check mail, I notice that the wheel to the right of the Edge sign or Wifi Network symbol on top isn't there spinning. If there's no spinning wheel, then I know I will not be able to receive any emails nor send them out. The only way to solve is to restart the phone.

I've tried deleting all of the accounts, restoring the iPhone, changing the receive email option to manual and the other auto settings, and nothing works. I'm sick of always having to restart the phone to get mail. I've tried this with the last three software versions and am now on the current 1.1.4. I have never jailbreaked or unlocked the phone.

Any ideas? My frustration level is very high with the phone only for this reason.

Thanks so much!


-Phil

[Eragon]

Unfortunately, you don't have many options. The iPhone mail application is Spotty at best. I do what you've been doing. When the mail application doesn't show any messages, I'll hit the mail widget to force the iPhone to pull the mail. I have my iPhone set to manually check mail every 15 minutes.

Every once in awhile mail seems to be waiting for extra postage, and takes forever download. Or, mail appears to be invincible to deletion and prefers to hang around a little longer in my In box.

The bottom line: manually (yourself) check for new mail; reset the iPhone (home and sleep button); restore the iPhone; or pay the mail man extra postage.

[Hayesimus]

I don't email. The only time i've used the damn email app was when i joined up iRovr. And then i had to UNhide the icon so i could use it lol.

[itskels]

i thought it was just me...i just use my email on Safari now, I can't take the iphone mail app anymore.

[Hayesimus]

same here. if i need to check it i'll log into the real thing lol

[psylichon]

I blame Yahoo. They've been historically flaky with their iPhone support. And their servers seem to go down more often than Jenna Jameson.

I've never had a problem with my gmail account... flawless operation for the most part.

[Hayesimus]

HAHA. i love jenna. oh no wait. its jenny mcarthy i love. nevermind.

[psylichon]

Originally Posted by Hayesimus

HAHA. i love jenna. oh no wait. its jenny mcarthy i love. nevermind.

Same diff.

That's wrong, I know.

[Hayesimus]

no jenny has a better face. But they both have great personalities.

[psylichon]

Originally Posted by Hayesimus

no jenny has a better face. But they both have great personalities.

He says, after hanging out with both extensively. Hah!

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