Outlook - Massive data usage. Other options?

[Guest T39andcounting]

I've been playing around with my m3100 for about a month now, and recently got a bill from Orange for 20Mb of date. Not a huge amount maybe, but compared to my previous bills using a Treo 650 this was a big bill. I was especially surprised as I'd mainly been using it over WiFi, and hadn't been doing that much surfing out and about.

I installed GPRS Traffic Monitor last week and noticed that after a couple of email send and receives the data usage had gone up to 1.5mb. I did another Send and Recieve while monitoring it (didn't actually send any email, or receive any!) and the data usage was almost 0.4Mb! I'm using IMAP, and my inbox has about 200 emails in it, same as it was on my Treo which I used to sync almost everyday, so this appears to be just Outlook sticking on a huge overhead.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any tips on how to reduce the data usage per send and receive? Or can anyone else suggest any other mail clients? I've had a look at FlexMail, but have seen some dodgy reviews.

Help! My main use for my m3100 when I'm out and about will be for email, and I can't afford to keep using 20Mb or more per month!

[Guest]

I've been playing around with my m3100 for about a month now, and recently got a bill from Orange for 20Mb of date. Not a huge amount maybe, but compared to my previous bills using a Treo 650 this was a big bill. I was especially surprised as I'd mainly been using it over WiFi, and hadn't been doing that much surfing out and about.

I installed GPRS Traffic Monitor last week and noticed that after a couple of email send and receives the data usage had gone up to 1.5mb. I did another Send and Recieve while monitoring it (didn't actually send any email, or receive any!) and the data usage was almost 0.4Mb! I'm using IMAP, and my inbox has about 200 emails in it, same as it was on my Treo which I used to sync almost everyday, so this appears to be just Outlook sticking on a huge overhead.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any tips on how to reduce the data usage per send and receive? Or can anyone else suggest any other mail clients? I've had a look at FlexMail, but have seen some dodgy reviews.

Help! My main use for my m3100 when I'm out and about will be for email, and I can't afford to keep using 20Mb or more per month!

Have you direct push enabled on the email a/c? This will use quite alot of data as it keeps talking to the server to keep the connection open.

If you are the Exchange admin you could look into increasing the heartbeat interval. Alternativly you could turn off direct push and just poll every 30 or 60 mins.

hth

gr

[Guest T39andcounting]

Have you direct push enabled on the email a/c? This will use quite alot of data as it keeps talking to the server to keep the connection open.

If you are the Exchange admin you could look into increasing the heartbeat interval. Alternativly you could turn off direct push and just poll every 30 or 60 mins.

hth

gr

I'm not using push. Just offline mail which I sync manually, (Menu-> Send/Receive).

[Guest jimbouk]

I havent used imap on my devices ever. I use a hosted exchange server account with direct push and reckon that the hearbeat and general syncing equate to approx 12mb a month plus actual content. As I only push first 5kb of each new mail and only small attachments, it means less than 20mb a month in total.

Do you sync your imap mailbox with the cable/wifi sometimes or rely upon all imap syncing over the air? As you say there were no new emails, but as I understand it imap syncs the whole mailbox (a little like exchance - and not like pop which only sends new items).

[Guest]

I'm not using push. Just offline mail which I sync manually, (Menu-> Send/Receive).

Have you set AS to sync entire messages or just the headers for example? Personally I'd set it to headers only or 2 - 5 kb and only download entire messages if you really need them.

gr

[Guest T39andcounting]

Have you set AS to sync entire messages or just the headers for example? Personally I'd set it to headers only or 2 - 5 kb and only download entire messages if you really need them.

gr

It's set to download just the first 1kb of each message...As far as I can see all the options are to use the minimum data, but it almost looks like it's checking through all the messages on the server, rather than just downloading the latest.

I've now downloaded FlexMail now, and with the same settings it's a lot more efficient data wise - about 20-30k per sync. There are some bugs in the app still, but it's better than dealing with Outlook!