[Fot] Test

[Bill Babcock]

Allow me, I speak geek.

He said he was experiencing an unexplained increase in internet volume and
traced some of it to the inefficient way that some mail clients use the IMAP
mail protocol whereby they frequently download large volumes of archived mail
to search for message threads that can be combined. A really stupid feature
that makes new mail disappear from your inbox and reappear in an older mail
string as a conversation". He switched to the older and simpler POP3 protocol
and his volume decreased.

In reality though, it probably wont change things dramatically for Chris. His
mail client will fight him all the way, trying to make life more organized.
I dont know whose stupid idea this is, but they have cost the entire world
countless hours of productivity and endless lost mail. Nevermind scaling up
the requirement for bandwidth.

Alas, there are all kinds of tools weve come to use that gobble bandwidth.
Location services, push notifications, cloud storage, etc. If you elect to use
Apples cloud storage for music you can expect a huge increase since songs
need to be downloaded and buffered over and over. If youre crazy enough to
store video in the cloud your bandwidth requirements increase geometrically.


On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:41 AM, John Hasty <jhhasty at gdhs.com> wrote:

> Good grief!  What did he just say?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:03 PM, "MadMarx" <tr4racing at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had a traffic explosion the last 4 year.
>>
>> I found the reason.
>> The Outlook IMAP account did rise that traffic.
>> Outlook is checking ALL mails stored on the webserver, which in this case
> is
>> 45T mails to check.
>> Outlook is doing that in the background and consumes 60-80 MB/hour.
>>
>> I converted the account to a POP account which consumes 0,8MB/hour.
>>
>> Quite a difference :-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chris
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