Email Auto Receive timing- and general help for hotmail settings...

Hi again.  I use hotmail, I believe I have all the settings correctly, I get the email refreshed on the phone when I hit the refresh button, but no other times.  I have my hotmail settings on the phone set to:
- Get 50 most recent
- Get 3k of text
- Tell me I have mail OFF
- Auto receive ON

Now I DO NOT want to be notified I have email, the thing would be going off all the time, but I DO WANT IT TO AUTOMATICALLY go fetch the mail off hotmail's servers every x # of minutes or as soon as I get an email.

Does anyone know how long the times is in between auto-receives?  Outlook and Outlook express, windows live mail, etc let you change it from 1min to basically whatever you want.  My windows live account is set to 1min...not that it makes a diff for the phone probably.

Anyone have any suggestions or fixes?
thx

Ok cool, I am not going crazy, however it just must have kicked in or who knows, it seems to be working...at the moment.  However, it would be cool to know how often it syncs with hotmail/gmail, etc.

If you're using one of the pre-defined e-mail providers (AOL, Gmail, etc.l) that support IMAP, you should basically be getting push e-mail where the e-mail shows up on your phone as it is received by your provider.  You have to allow a little lag time though--I usually get my Gmail notifications within 20 seconds.  I think there have been some server issues today as earlier I wasn't getting any notifications, but now it is working again.

If you configure an "Other" e-mail account, your phone will only check for e-mails once every 15 minutes.

*sigh*

It appears there may be server issues again.  I'm no longer getting e-mails unless I manually refresh, and the last time I did that it prompted me for my password saying that it had apparently changed, which it did not.  So today's probably not the best day for testing things out.  Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

OK I have been tracking this...because this feature is very important to me and other people I would imagine.  This morning it seemed to work just fine, however I did not pay attention to the time I got the message on hotmail and the phone...I was in the car and could not check.  However, since about 7:30 AM PT today, I have not gotten a darn thing.  So I go to manually refresh the phone, and it tells me that my security key is no longer valid, and it takes me through the entire email setup process again, everything got wiped out, my hotmail and my work email.  I will attempt to test this feature again and will update once applicable.  Did anyone else have the same problem today?

My Gmail was working fine since I got my instinct on the 8th (with the exception of server issues for a few hours one day last week), until yesterday.  Yesterday there were issues off and on most of the day.  Three different times when I went to refresh e-mail manually (because push wasn't working), it prompted me for a new password as it said my password seems to have changed.  My password never changed, and all three times I just re-entered my password and then it downloaded mail. 

I know that SEVEN was doing maintenance yesterday afternoon which I thought was only supposed to affect the newer version of their software (which is in beta and not currently used by Sprint), but maybe that also had an effect on Sprint mail too?  Or maybe just a coincidence.  Anyway, things seem to be back to normal for me today.  Hope they stay that well, because when e-mail does work it works great for me. 

Take a look here at this thread ... someone from SEVEN posted with us an email address where they are taking feedback on the email app. I urge you to share feedback with them.
http://www.instinct-samsung.com/index.php/topic,1657.0.html