Re: [Evolution] Evolution's mega bandwidth hogging

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:35 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote:
> The last few days have been frustrating for me.  I'm a newbie to
> Ubuntu (of about two weeks).  On Windows, I used Gmail via the
> browser.  After installing Ubuntu, I decided to give Evolution a shot
> and like it a lot (since it's neatly integrated)
> However, my bandwidth usage shot up to between one and two gigs per
> day, and I had no idea what was causing it.

I find this very hard to believe Evolution is the cause of this.  Have
you verified this though any substantive means?  Like Wireshark or,
easier, Etherape?

> Today, around 16 gigs later (after 10 days), it seems that Evolution
> is the cause.  I've done everything possible to find what's causing my
> traffic spike, and everything points to Evo.

"done everything" includes what?

> My question is: how do you optimise Evo to use bandwidth efficiently?
> Currently, it's connected to Gmail via IMAP+.  I only have Evo
> checking for new messages in subscribed folders (which is a handful).
> It checks for new mail every minute (like it did in Outlook).
> Advice / thoughts...

There is no reason to check-for-new-messages if you are using IMAP+ with
IDLE enabled.  That is the *point* of IDLE; the server notifies the
client of changes; the client does not need to poll the server.