Hello Friends, I just returned from the Sight City show in Frankfurt where I had the opportunity to check out some really cool technology. While there, I chose to use my mobile broadband service instead of paying for the daily hotel rates for a wireless connection in the hotel. WLAN would have cost me 19 Euros a day.
Here in Austria, I have a pay-as-you-go mobile broadband plan in which I pay 4 Euros per gigabyte. Since you pay a lot more when you use the service outside your home country, I decided to only check my mail and only read the messages that I needed to deal with. To my way of thinking, I would thus have the convenience of being able to check my mail as often as was necessary without consuming too much data. In all truthfulness, I was under the impression that with IMAP, I was only downloading message headers and would only download the actual message or attachment when I pressed Enter on the message I wanted to read. When I returned to Vienna this morning, I discovered that I had downloaded 37 MB and had a 90 Euro data bill! Here's my question: Is there any way when using IMAP to only download message headers and then to only download the messages I really need to read? If not, is there any way for me to use my Mac for checking e-mail outside Austria without running up such a large data bill? One person said that I may have been forcing the Mac mail program to download every message because I may have activated some sort of Spam or Junk folder filter setting. The idea was that in order to determine whether a message might be spam, it first had to be downloaded in its entirety. Thanks for any thoughts! Mike P.S. I fly to Belgium on Monday, and I'd dearly love to have a solution prior to that trip--<Smile>! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
