vincent.flouriot Reporter
	Description • 13 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

I was travelling accessing internet with my 3G mobile connection.

Since I just received a new laptop, and decided to install thunderbird on it to access my IMAP accounts.

That's all.


Actual results:

By default, the TB installer has the "local cache copy" option enabled. As a result it started to synchronize my remote IMAP databases with the local cache.

I did not noticed anything and just worked the whole day as usual. 

Surprise came when my 3G provider warned me by SMS that I just reached the allowed 1GB data volume. After investigation I understood that all this was due to the TB sync process enabled by default.

My 3G provider charged me EUR 40 for this. Since I'm a supporter of TB I will not blame you about that.

But I do think this option is quite dangerous for you, because TB really do that in background. Some users may not react the same way...







Expected results:

I think that the TB installer shall offer an option for mobile users. This option will adjust correct settings to limit the bandwidth usage at maximum.

	vincent.flouriot Reporter
	Comment 1 • 13 years ago

This option should also be avalaible when creating email accounts.

	Hashem Masoud
	Comment 2 • 13 years ago

(In reply to vincent.flouriot from comment #0)
Agreed. At least a warning should be displayed to the end-user about the potential of bandwidth consumption.

	vincent.flouriot Reporter
	Comment 3 • 13 years ago

Hello Masoud,

Well, remember that one of the core interrest of IMAP is to provide full access to the email database without need of bandwidth. Forcing a sync by default is somewhere a mistake. 

As a software user I definitely prefer a checkbox option (such as "optimize account setings to limit bandwith usage") rather than beeing prompted by a warning.


Vincent

	Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]
	Comment 4 • 13 years ago

Not completely - but almost a dup of 511118