It kept re-downloading the same ones? That's not right. Maybe check your imap settings on gmail's website?
No, there is no way to stop it from getting mail while you are in the mail app. After all, you are there to check mail, so it tries to help out by always getting the newest messages. Once it syncs itself with the website it should be fine. Maybe just leave it alone for a while until everything is updated? On 3/2/12, Jessica <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, is there anyway though, to stop it from continuously downloading it > while it's open? When it opened it for the first time, it downloaded 50 > messages, then continuously downloaded them as I was deleting them, making > it impossible to even get rid of them. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ricardo Walker" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 12:49 PM > Subject: Re: managing mail on the IPhone. > > > 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 > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Mar 2, 2012, at 6:20 PM, "Jessica" <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >> 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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