John Mellor writes:
On 2022-02-13 2:09 p.m., c. marlow wrote:I am on a satellite dish connection and we only get so much data a month and then when we run out, we're lowered to 1 to 3 megs until our reset day. But, a lot of people on the internet has told me that IMAP doesn't use a lot of data. I don't believe it though.That's actually a good reason to use IMAP instead, as the normal behaviour is to download the headers and not the bodies. You only download the bodies on mails that you read, so unless you don't get any spam or if you actually read every single message that you get, your bandwidth usage will normally appreciably be lower with IMAP.
There's no such thing as "normal behavior" when it comes to IMAP. It all depends entirely on how a mail client uses it.
It is true that IMAP offers a compact way of downloading a compact, capsule summary, of the messages in each folder.
So, if your IMAP client uses it, great.But there's nothing that stops the IMAP client from downloading every email message in the mailbox, as soon as it sees it, if it so chooses to do so.
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