Why is my email usage so high on my iPhone 4?

My iPhone email is using a LOT of my data. For example, I just switched to T-Mobile and after 1 day my usage is 120 MB with 106 of that being mail. I even have it set to not load images automatically and it is still very high. Any ideas? I do have 4 email accounts on it. WIth about 2 hours left in the day I've gotten 55 emails today.

Don't email then

You probably have the email app automatically checking for email all day long. That uses a lot of data when the phone constantly using the Internet check for mail. To fix this, go to settings, general, then to mail. You will see an option towards the top that have the word PUSH on it. I can't remember if it's a switch or, but make sure you either change push to manual fetch or turn the push feature off. I realize I sound like a babbling idiot, I switched to Android about a year ago so I can't remember too much.

Go to settings> cellular > and if you scroll down you'll see apps and it will show how much data has been used for them and on the right there's a option to turn off the data for that app

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