iPhone push email half-working
I have Yahoo! and MobileMe email accounts configured on my iPhone, and have noticed the push behavior is (shockingly) not working 100% correctly all of the time.
Incoming unread email appears as it should; the Mail icon badge lights up with new unread email within 10 seconds of it arriving. But if I read the email somewhere other than the iPhone, the "unread messages" badge refuses to update to reflect fewer unread messages until I manually go into the inbox for that account and force it to retrieve new email messages.
I spent a half hour chatting with an Apple support specialist about this, and they had me turn off Push, power down the phone for 30 seconds, then reverse those two steps. No change. Then they had me delete and re-add the account. No change.
I recognize that being alerted about incoming mail is clearly more important than seeing your "unread message" count go down, but I know this has worked in the past. Is anyone else experiencing this? Can someone who has a Push account configured try this scenario out and tell me if it is working for them?
Incoming unread email appears as it should; the Mail icon badge lights up with new unread email within 10 seconds of it arriving. But if I read the email somewhere other than the iPhone, the "unread messages" badge refuses to update to reflect fewer unread messages until I manually go into the inbox for that account and force it to retrieve new email messages.
I spent a half hour chatting with an Apple support specialist about this, and they had me turn off Push, power down the phone for 30 seconds, then reverse those two steps. No change. Then they had me delete and re-add the account. No change.
I recognize that being alerted about incoming mail is clearly more important than seeing your "unread message" count go down, but I know this has worked in the past. Is anyone else experiencing this? Can someone who has a Push account configured try this scenario out and tell me if it is working for them?
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