Re: [Evolution] pop server usage question

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Care to share? Perhaps download less than "TOP <id> 0" ?

Jeff

On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 14:48, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 14:35, Matthew J. Doller wrote:
> > i'm using evolution to access a pop account of mine.  it's set up to
> > check for new mail every 5 minutes, and to leave the messages on the
> > server.
> > recently i got an e-mail from my administrator saying that over the
> > course of a day, i had accessed over 700 megs of mail over the course of
> > a day.
>
> Ugh. This is the fault of the hack to deal with keep-on-server for old
> POP servers that don't support UIDL. It downloads the headers and
> MD5sums them and uses that as the uid. So it's downloading all of your
> mail headers every 5 minutes.
>
> I know how this can be fixed, I'm going to file it in bugzilla.
>
> -- Dan
>
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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