When my phone is in "standby" it gets calls just fine, but will not auto-receive email regardless of my settings.

im using wifi for everything since my work and home both have it. if i start the phone and go into email and hit send/receive and the phone goes into standby while its logging in or sending, etc, it cancels it and i have to start the phone up again to get email.

any tips?

just an update.. aparantly it does but it does not alert me and it does not check every 5 minutes like i told it to. weird.

i have basic questions otherwise that seem easy but i cant for the life of me find them. when in a phone call, how do you turn the volume up and down? thought the scroll wheel but it didnt work. and i cant permanantly shut off 3g since i dont pay for it and now i owe cingular 10 bux =[ lame. any help on that is appreciated. i shut it off in connection manager but i shut my phone off [held the side button.. is there another way?] and it loses that preference so i keep forgetting to re-shut that off.