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Hi everyone,

I'm quite excited about the new 1.1.4 release and its support for IMAP push. I'm a little hesitant to use it, though, as I only have 200 MB of mobile data per month in my contract. I used to check my email on three different IMAP account every 15 mins and regularly ran out of mobile data half-way into the month. Now, I'm only checking my email once every 30 mins during the day and "twice a day" at night, which helps in that I ran out of data only at the end of the month.

Is IMAP push going to use more or even less data than that? I used to have push on my old iPhone and rarely reached over 200 MB a month. Is it really actually saving data? On a related note, how does it impact battery life (compared to checking a couple of times per hour)? I imagine there's no such thing as a free lunch...

Hi everyone,

I'm quite excited about the new 1.1.4 release and its support for IMAP push. I'm a little hesitant to use it, though, as I only have 200 MB of mobile data per month in my contract. I used to check my email on three different IMAP account accounts every 15 mins and regularly ran out of mobile data half-way into the month. Now, I'm only checking my email once every 30 mins during the day and "twice a day" at night, which helps in that I ran out of data only at the end of the last month.

Is IMAP push going to use more or even less data than that? I used to have push on my old iPhone and rarely reached over 200 MB a month. Is it really actually saving data? On a related note, how does it impact battery life (compared to checking a couple of times per hour)? I imagine there's no such thing as a free lunch...