Missing feature in the iPhone mail client?

Even though the iPhone Mail client is arguably the best mail client on a mobile device, I still feel that it’s missing a crucial feature. Even Nokia phones that didn’t support receiving HTML formatted mail until recently, have had this feature for ages.

I’m talking about scheduled mail downloading. I don’t read mail when I sleep. I also do not want any work-related mail on weekends. On my Nokia, I could easily set it to fetch mail Mon-Fri 8:00–17:00. If I want the same functionality on my iPhone I need to go to the advanced mail settings twice daily to manually switch fetching on or off.

This is such a simple feature, that I’m honestly confused that Apple hasn’t included it in the client. Or am I just missing something?


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