On 10 May 2020, at 21:43, Guillaume Barrette wrote:
Hi Sam,
Thanks a lot for doing the test, this is really appreciated and
give me a better cue that something shouldn't be right with my setup!
I was thinking that maybe the problem was with Gmail since my 3 emails
who are really used are from Gmail, the 2 others are from my web
hosting provider and only have 109 messages in one and 21 in the
other, but now that you said that you have 2 Gmails addresses, then
there must be something else.
GMail does seem like a potential source of heavy traffic, since they
conflate IMAP flags (which MM exposes as "Tags") with mailboxes, so that
their mailboxes are a bit like "Smart" mailboxes. If you have rules that
tag mail automatically you could end up downloading mail twice or more.
So, do you mind giving me some insight on how your Gmail accounts are
configured in MailMate? Myself, I followed the information that we can
find in MailMate manual
[here](https://manual.mailmate-app.com/account_setup). So my
`Important` + `Starred` mailboxes are unchecked (not subscribed), but
I kept checked my `All Mail` mailbox (subscribed). Is it what you have
or you also unchecked the `All Mail` mailbox ?
I also have 2 GMail accounts, one with the recommended subscriptions and
one with all mailboxes subscribed. I do not see heavy bandwidth usage,
but I also have very little mail activity on those accounts.
Now I think I'll put my email accounts offline and activate one for a
while and do this procedure with each account and see if one is the
problem or if it's MailMate in general.
An excellent approach.
One thing I have seen (and submitted a bug report for years ago) is that
MM can get into an infinite loop state where it repeatedly runs the same
IMAP commands against the same mailbox until the mailbox is offlined.
This could cause heavy bandwidth use but you would probably notice that
because it comes with an activity spinner for the account & mailbox
stricken by the bug.
One question for anyone reading, I don't think this is the case since
from my understanding this should simply scan the local copy of the
emails, but does the more that we have smart mailboxes in MailMate the
more it needs to fetch emails online?
No. Unless you have rules attached to those smart mailboxes that tag or
move messages automatically, they should not cause any server
interactions.
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Bill Cole
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