On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:54 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: > Does Evolution use a lot of bandwidth?
No > My ISP told me that I've used around 8.5GB in 4 days. I've done > nothing unusual, so he wondered if it is Evolution trying to download > my emails from Gmail. I operate my own Cyrus-IMAP server on a Linode [a VPS service] and use Evolution for both mail and CalDAV with that server [CalDAV provided by OpenGroupware Coils]. Evolution is running almost 24/7 and I use it constantly for ~50 hours a week. I don't even come close to that amount of traffic. > I've currently got Evolution set up to use IMAP. Do options like > "synchronise remote folders locally" use a lot of bandwidth? It will cause a surge in traffic for initial synchronization - essentially like POPing the entire folder. > Another thing I noticed is that Evolution is constantly "scanning for > changed information... (0% complete" and so on. Is that normal? Something is screwed up [maybe because gmail provides crappy IMAP support?]. Are you using server type "IMAP" or "IMAP+"? [Use IMAP+] Do you perhaps have check-for-new-messages-in-all-folders enabled? [Disable it] Is "Use IDLE if server supports it" checked? [Enable it - assuming gmail supports it] > What other things should I check to ensure that Evolution is not > eating up my bandwidth? _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
