Sync mail but not automatically push it to phone

Help Fairphone 2
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Hi, very exciting to have my FP2! but also very disorienting after years with iPhones.

I would like to set up my email so that it only fetches the mail when I open the Mail app – not automatically. But I would still like it to sync with the mail server, so I can keep things synced, eg from ipad to fairphone to desktop.

Not sure if I just don’t understand the settings or don’t find the right place to do this – in the Mail settings, I only see the Sync frequency options. Thanks a million!

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When you set up your mail-account choose for IMAP, so your mail gets synced.
If you can set your mail-app to only fetch mail, when opening the app, I don’t know.
I use K-9 Mail app from F-Droid and I couldn’t find that particular setting.

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If you set the Sync frequency to “Never” it won’t sync automatically. You can still sync manually by doing the “pull down” gesture in the Email app.

4

Thank you. @ChuckMorris this is very helpful, I didn’t realize that was possible.
Cheers.