Can't stop Mail checking email...

I have the same problem. Please help.

I just responded to a similar thread for iPhone. I have this issue on both devices. Push is on for Find my Phone but Fetch is set to manual for each and every account. And most of them are POP and don't offer Push anyway.

I have no idea. But self-checking for mail also seems to quit whatever program I am using.

Same issue here. Mail continues to check email in the background, or get email "pushed" to it even though everything and every account is set to manual checking. Don't understand what I'm missing, but it seems like a bit of a multitasking bug for Mail if you ask me. I don't really want to hear the new mail sound bite every few minutes unless I specifically ask for push/fetch email.

The only way I've found to stop it is by "quitting" Mail from the multitasking task manager. Double tap home button to bring up task manager, hold finger on any icon until the icons start to wobble, press on the "-" symbol on the Mail app to remove the app from multitasking.

This stops Mail from always checking for new email, but it is hardly an ideal solution. Could also turn off the audio for new email, but this doesn't really stop Mail from checking for new email.

Hopefully Apple finds this little bug and updates the issue for the next iOS 4 update. Hopefully....

How do you turn off the new mail sound? It even beeps when the iPad is shut off!

The only setting under the Mail etc settings that you haven't mentioned which I have turned OFF is the Calendar 'New Invitation Alerts'.
Might be worth a try.

To turn off the new mail sound on the iPhone (not sure if different between iPad and iPhone) go to Settings->Sound->Turn Off New Mail sound.

Haven't upgraded to iOS 4.1 yet, wonder if the bug has been fixed.

It also seems to only be the Yahoo email causing the continuous email checking, Gmail only downloads new mail after I open the Mail app.

You have to uncheck the IDLE command in the Advanced preferences for your email account. The IDLE command keeps a continual, open connection to your email server, thus delivering the equivalent of "push" (or "instantaneous") email to your Mail program.
I discuss this in more length here: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/howfix_and_change_default_sound_applemail

As I already wrote in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2641966&tstart=15 , Mail App leaves connections alive even if we'd like to have anything manual. I think it's a bug. Is it possible that none of Apple is sending a clear answer on this issue? We have so many threads asking for the same problem. The cost of this devices deserves an answer, isn't it Apple?

Please don't post general solutions, Ipad has different Mail settings than general Mac!

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