Thunderbird Download Data Usage

Asked by Harkey Edwards

My Thunderbird data usage is running around 500 mb per month. This seems extremely high base upon the email I receive. I receive approximately 100 emails per day around 50% are spam. The appropriate messages consist of short text based messages. Attachments are generally pdf files less than 1 mb.

What would cause such high data usage?

Can the data usage be monitored and or managed?

Thank you - Harkey

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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You could set the application to not download images or attachments unless you say. The spam mails will have images using lots of data, but if you tell the client to only download text you will waste less data...

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Harkey Edwards (he-m) said :
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Thank you for your help.