Is there a way I can log off my gmail account on my Droid? This phone is a pain in the butt. It will not tell me when I have mail.
Either the phone is defective or something's not set right.
On my Droid, in overall phone settings, there's an "Accounts and Sync" option where I can opt to have the phone sync with Gmail on/off, as well as a couple of data sync settings. In my pop email settings, there's an option to have the phone check for email at intervals or not at all. I have them enabled, and I do get icon notifications at the top of the home screen when anything arrives, texting, gmail, pop mail, voicemail,...whatever.
If yours is set to do all that and it's not happening, time to have a heart-to-heart with your ever-so-friendly VZW rep.
On the question of "logging off Gmail", I don't think so. That question is reminiscent of all the hullabaloo back in the early days of data-capable cell phones, and everyone was upset they couldn't terminate their internet connection to return to "voice" mode. The whole thing was totally specious and just used up a lot of needless bandwidth - the phones were designed to take care of all that transparently to users.
Similarly, I don't believe it's intended that we log our phones in and out of Gmail. It's a "push" environment by design. If you don't want your Gmail traffic to show up at your phone immediately, there's a setting to turn sync off. But I don't see the point.