[MlMt] Ideas to reduce the footprint of MailMate

[Guillaume Barrette]

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.

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 ?

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.

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?

Thanks again Sam and everyone!

--
Guillaume

On 10 May 2020, at 20:53, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> Just a follow up - having run MailMate for about 18 hours with 
> Activity Monitor open, I’m showing 1 MB sent and 20 MB received.
>
> Not a huge email day for me, but that’s like three orders of 
> magnitude less than what you’re seeing. I think there’s something 
> screwy going on with your setup.
>
> Maybe some brain-dead IMAP servers force MailMate to be more 
> profligate with bandwidth. What servers are you connecting to? I have 
> two Fastmail accounts, two GMail accounts, and one private server 
> running Dovecot.
>
> Hope this helps and that you find a fix.
> -sam
>
> On 10 May 2020, at 12:25, Guillaume Barrette wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>>     Actually, if you open Activity Monitor, you will see it 
>> starts at zero and then augment and if you restart it it restarts. 
>> With that, I'm watching it during the day and see that the download 
>> count raise little by little. For example, I restarted Activity 
>> Monitor this morning (a little before I sent my last email) and 
>> without restarting MailMate and now I see 522 ko uploads / 325,4 mo 
>> uploads [screenshot](https://d.pr/i/6iuelW)
>>
>> So, yes at first I thought this could have been a total since the 
>> process started, but I see while looking at it that it rises and 
>> restart on restart (or pane change) of Activity Monitor, so I'm quite 
>> sure this is accumulated between each time I restart it.
>>
>> Thanks for your inputs, I'll try to see if I can find another place 
>> where I could see the total since the process started to see the 
>> difference.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Guillaume
>>
>> On 10 May 2020, at 12:16, Bill Cole wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 May 2020, at 10:32, Guillaume Barrette wrote:
>>>
>>>> To give you more inputs, yesterday MailMate downloaded for 2.1gb of 
>>>> data.
>>>> You can see a screenshot taken at the end of the day before I put 
>>>> my laptop to sleep [here](https://d.pr/i/XVsY6a)
>>>
>>> I believe those network values are not per day, but for the lifetime 
>>> of the process. I haven't found (in a brief search) any explicit 
>>> documentation of it being anything else. Sleep (even hibernation) 
>>> does not reset the counter.
>>>
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