[MlMt] Ideas to reduce the footprint of MailMate

[Sam Hathaway]

2 GB of network traffic per day seems high. I’m going to leave 
Activity monitor open on my MailMate today and see what I get.

Messages.noindex tends to be a bit larger than the on-server size of the 
messages, but not staggeringly so. For example, one of my accounts is 
using 4.7 GB on the server but its folder inside Messages.noindex is 5.0 
GB.

Also I’d suggest paying attention to the “Private memory” rather 
than “Memory” as that shows the amount of RAM MailMate is using that 
isn’t shared with other processes. (If I understand correctly.)

Hope this helps.
-sam

On 9 May 2020, at 10:45, Guillaume Barrette wrote:

> Dear MailMate Users,
>
>     First, I want to say that I really like MailMate with its 
> customization and search possibilities, this is not a rant, but just 
> that I would like to tune it to reduce its footprint if possible.
>
> In short I find it a little heavy regarding its usage of resources. To 
> give some statistics:
>
> My mailboxes consist of:
>
> - 195,766 messages collected from 5 mailboxes (3 from Gmail + 2 other 
> from my web host which have pretty much no message in them)
> - I'm getting around 80 emails per day
>
> What I would like to improve:
>
> 1. By investigating MailMate's downloads from the Activity Monitor 
> Network tab, I see that MailMate is downloading around 2gb of data per 
> days
> 2. My "Messages.noindex" directory takes around 20gb of space on my 
> drive
> 3. MailMate takes around 1gb of memory while running
>
> So, I think my best way to reduce most of it would be to move a lot of 
> my emails to a new submailbox that I will unsubscribe from MailMate. 
> So my question, is this the only solution? I know there's no way to 
> set MailMate to only download emails from the "last 6 months" or 
> something like that, but is there other solutions than to move 
> everything out?
>
> Regarding my MailMate download statistic, my Internet plan consists of 
> 150gb per month, so almost half of it goes to MailMate (2gb x 30 days 
> = 60gb / 150gb), is this normal our could it be a bug? I don't think 
> my previous email application was using that much bandwidth... I have 
> difficulty to see how MailMate can use that much bandwidth since by 
> looking at a big day (105 mails) it's around 6.8 mb of storage space. 
> Is MailMate batch re-downloading many emails every day ? To mention, 
> all my accounts have their "Synchronization Schedule" set to "Every 10 
> minutes".
>
> I have multiple Smart Mailboxes, with some submailboxes populated 
> using the "Submailbox for each unique value of", could this add to the 
> bandwidth and does reducing the amount will greatly help in reducing 
> the memory used or the memory is more proportional to the number of 
> emails?
>
> Thanks anyone for any cues and help!
>
> All the best,
>
> --
> Guillaume
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