On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 13:03 +0100, wwp wrote:
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.
You make assumptions here that follow your use, and it's not at all mine - I do read (thus, download) - read or filter by body contents - nearly all emails I receive, and I receive a lot of spam that is also filtered on client-side.
I do all my spam filtering server-side, though that would apply both to POP and IMAP.
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Also, writing/sending at lot of emails, using drafts, will increase your network consumption, but that, also, depends on your own uses. A slow network user will be sensitive to that.
Most IMAP MUAs allow you to specify a local folder for drafts, if that's a concern.
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