More Traffic than K9

[Sinus]

Hi,
after some years using K9 Mail, i changed yesterday to aqua-mail pro, because of some battery trouble.
I use 3 IMAP accounts with pushmail (push only for the inbox, the rest is syncing one time a hour).
So, K9 mail needs about 80 kb in 7 hours Aqua mail need 500kb in the same time.
Did i do a wrong configuration or is this normal for Aqua mail?

Greetings for Germany

Sinus

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Well, I don't know. Haven't done any measurements at this level -- now if it was "10 megabytes in 10 minutes" that'd be different.

500 KB in 7 hours is under two megabytes of traffic a day -- doesn't seem at all bad to me.

The only thing that comes to mind is -- did you increase the "messages to sync" setting, the default is 25 (how many recent messages are kept up to date, per folder).

[julio66]

You are totally right Kostya, its not bad at all.
Regarding making a measurement of which app is using more kb, it is really difficult because it also depends on the operators line capasity the exact moments you measure...an example; if the line "drops" while downloading an email, it starts over again automatically and this happens a lot when there is a lot of traffic on the "net"...
I used K9 for ages too, and have the oposite results, but I know for sure in my case that they improved the lines so I have less "data-loss" per hour....so regarding tge use of data...I wouldn't say there is any difference at all.

[Sinus]

Sorry about my Question, but the only thing i whant to know was, is this normal or did i make an error in the configuration. I have no problem to uses 3 mb a day, but i want to know is this normal.
By the way, there was no mail download in this time.

[julio66]

You don't need to apologize to ask a question, that's why this thread are here I suppose.
But yes my friend, it is "normal" this use of kb, and yes...you do use kb even if there is no mail arriving (not much, but some).
 

[Kostya Vasilyev]

And it's a "bananas to hedgehogs" comparison anyway.

For example, K9 doesn't do anything to keep push (IMAP) connections alive -- so if your network provider is too happy about disconnecting them, or the WiFi router is -- K9 will think it's still running in push mode, even though the connection's gone dead.

Aqua sends a dummy keep-alive command every few minutes, so that's extra traffic (although very little).

On the other hand, if you use a Gmail account, try refreshing it from the account list, and when it's done, do it again.

You should see that Aqua is very efficient when there are no changes (no new or deleted messages, no read/unread changes), detecting it in the whole account at once.

[Sinus]

Sorry, this ist not what i mean. I did not want compare Aqua mail with K9 mail. On the contrary, I find Aqua mail better than K9 , otherwise I would not have bought it . Also, i have no problem with the 2-3 Mb in the day, I just wanted to know if I made an error during setup. Well, my question is answered , I think we can finish the topic.

Sinus