Email Data
Hi folks. I have 4 email accounts. 3 are business accounts. The ones that are business accounts have emails that are probably years old. I've discovered that my mobile data is being used up by my email.
So my question is: When I download new emails, is it just the new email that is downloaded, or is it an updated file with the new email added to it?
As said, with the amount of emails that are stored would mean a full email file download would be extremely large.
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More information would help. If the account is POP, most users set the account to download the message to PC and then delete from server, but that's an option. If IMAP, all messages remain on the server. If you tell us more about the accounts, someone here may have suggestions on reducing the space being used.
Hi David and thanks for posting. I thought POP had disappeared years ago. The accounts are all IMAP. The concern was how much data was being consumed. The iPhone shows that a massive amout of data is being used up by the email accounts. This is why I'm trying to find out if all of the emails are refreshed (Downloaded again) or if it's just the new emails that are added. I know that it's only the header info of the email that is shown until it's clicked on.
The accounts are set to fetch at 15 minute intervals. Agai I know the contents aren't downloaded if it's not selected. Hope this further info will help.
POP is alive and well and many swear they'll never leave it. Anyway, I wonder if you're using Gmail. My thought on that is that Gmail offers settings that create duplicate views, causing lots of storage to be used. IMAP accounts don't respond to control from email clients well, and most show incoming messages immediately, regardless of the setting for periodic checks. On your question, the data is downloaded depending on your synchronization&storage settings. If you specify all messages locally, then you will experience a degree of downloading as Thunderbird verifies at startup that all messages are, indeed, locally available.
Again David thanks. It's on an iPhone that is using up the contract data. I've checked the capacity on the phone and found there is LOADS of space available. The phone contract data is being used up at an alarming rate and the phone info points to email using, by far, most of it.
Is this a Gmail account? If so, what folders are in use? We don't do phones, but should be the same as PC.
Not just a Gmail but a few others. On the iPhone, if you swipe down it fetches emails (manually). I'm going to see if changing the fetch times will change the amount of data being used. This will take a while, so it may be ages before I revisit.
Thanks for now though.