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I am a new iPhone user and have trouble driving Mac, so hopefully I'm missing something obvious.

I set up email on my iPhone, and was happy to see my emails downloaded into the inbox. A few days later I noticed that new emails were not being fetched.

My inbox is displayed with the most recent emails at the top. When I delete the first email and click refresh, the status bar says "downloading 1 of 1", and the next email appears at the top of the inbox. It looks like new emails are not downloaded until I 'make room', but this seems strange because there are only 49 emails at a time in the inbox.

What can I do so that all emails are downloaded?

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Did you use POP or IMAP to set up your email on your iPhone? In case of IMAP your mail service may limit the number of messages you can see in a folder to speed up mail checking. – Andris Feb 18 '11 at 20:53
This question is really two: 1) How do I as a new user systematically troubleshoot an issue between a mobile mail client, an unnamed server using one of many protocols and the internet connection between the two. 2) What specifically broke in my isolated case. Would you consider editing the question by adding details to steer this either way? apple.com/support/iphone/mail is good for guidance - at the bottom of the page is a link to more troubleshooting steps if the guides don't identify a setup issue. – bmike♦ May 19 '11 at 11:52

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Try rebooting your iPhone 4. I have similar issues from time to time (permanently fetching new mails, not showing new mails although the mail icon has a ared badge). Rebooting always helped me. To reboot, press the power button on the top for a few seconds until you will be asked if you want to turn off the device. Then wait until it is shut off and switch it back on again.

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Thanks for the suggestion but I tried it and it did not help. – Greg Sansom Jan 19 '11 at 9:51

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