Imap & POP3

[rashad]

I have a client uses his site to sending e-mails, and his Bandwidth Exceeded every time, it might be that's normal, but he was had different hosting before and the Bandwidth was fine.
My question: is the Imap has something to do with that?
If I change it to POP3 , will it solve the problem ?

[the_ancient]

that should not make a differant in bandwidth....

The question is do you have him at a lower qouta than his last host?

[rashad]

I do not know what he had before, but I gave him 300mb (qouta) !!

[the_ancient]

I do not know what he had before, but I gave him 300mb (qouta) !!

Are you talking about sending or Recieving?

How many mails is he sending and of what type? if they are HTML that may only get him 100 mails if he has images and everything else to send with them

[rashad]

They send between 20 - 30 e-mails (daily).
They receive 20 e-mails a day.
The exceeded of the bandwidth was not visible with old hosting, they were using POP3.

[the_ancient]

They send between 20 - 30 e-mails (daily).
They receive 20 e-mails a day.
The exceeded of the bandwidth was not visible with old hosting, they were using POP3.

I think we are talking about 2 differant things...

Are they Exceeding DISK SPACE, or BANDWIDTH......

I am thinking they are exceeding the DISK SPACE allotment, which you probally have set to 300MB,

if this is a case then switching to POP3 would probally help IF they use an external mail program where the emails are downloaded and deleted from the server..

IMAP does not delete the messages until the user requests deletion, thus the box fills up and you get the "quota exceeded" errors. This is also why most free Email Services (yahoo, gmail, etc ) are in the 800MB to 2 GB storage range.

[rashad]

My client using a program called ( POPcon ) and they download the e-mails from the site to their server .
Their site doesn't keep any e-mail.

[rashad]

miscoman.com (miscoman) has reached 80% of their bandwidth limit.

[the_ancient]

I am lost as to what the problem is...


300MB of bandwidth is not anywhere remotly enough for a web site that gets any kind of traffic, Hell I transfer that about between my Computer and my person web site, all by my self, this does not include any other traffic, email, etc...

Transfer Allotments on todays internet is measured in GB (gigabytes) MB is a thing of the past

Even jags LOWEST reseller plan, which only includes 50MB of storage space, has 2 GB of transfer bandwidth.

It sounds like your customer needs an increase in his quota. So you have to either do this free or charge him. There is no other solution.

that is ofcourse assuming we are talking about bandwith, which I am still not really sure that is what your talking about.

This whole thread has left me utterly confused as to what the problem is....