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Title: Software downloads hundres of emails every night...old stuff
Post by: susuna on May 27, 2015, 05:33:10 pm

Hello,

How do i prevent the software from downloading every night hundreds of old emails ?
i have POP3 email account (hosted email).

during the day it's Ok..    at night it goes crazy :)

Please help
Thanks 

Title: Re: Software downloads hundres of emails every night...old stuff
Post by: susuna on May 27, 2015, 05:52:59 pm

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

how does it prevent from downloading old emails...like from 2014 ?

Thanks

Title: Re: Software downloads hundres of emails every night...old stuff
Post by: mikeone on May 27, 2015, 06:06:02 pm

Hi,
You will find this options in app settings:

> go to Main window (Account list view) > menu (Three dots button) > Settings > Nights and weekends > night mode > enable "Enable night mode"; define night time ("From" / "To") > enable " Turn off scheduled checks" OR (if you have IMAP accounts)  just "Turn off IMAP push"

There are also options for different" Weekend mide" if needed.

I hope this information will be helpful.

Regards Mikeone

PS:
I agree with Paris Geek's recommendation to change to IMAP whenever this is possible.

Title: Re: Software downloads hundres of emails every night...old stuff
Post by: susuna on May 27, 2015, 06:15:28 pm

Thank you all for your help.

i will try.

Title: Re: Software downloads hundres of emails every night...old stuff
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on May 27, 2015, 11:53:29 pm

I also second (third) the recommendation to investigate switching to IMAP.

From your description, it sounds like your POP3 mail server may be indexing messages in reverse order (not by date, descending) -- and that's why the app is downloading old ones, instead of new, messages.

But one other thing to check while you're still using POP3 -- if you use "Move to deleted", you will want to long press the [ Deleted ] folder and "delete all" from time to time, so it doesn't grow too large. Note that this will delete any messages currently in [ Deleted ] from the mail server.