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Imap account bigger and bigger
 
I have a problem for years with only one gmail IMAP account I have. I am under win7 with the last pro version of the bat (and the last pro version of antispamsniper).

The problem is quite simple. I don't know why but in a few days or weeks the account became very very big. I tried to clear the cache of the account but it doesn't worked.

Just because I reached the 10 giga limit of gmail, I decided to make a back-up of the old mails and I deleted everything through gmail interface. And I also deleted fr om scratch the local account I had with The Bat.

Everything was deleted: online with gmail and offline with The bat.
I created a new Bat account always connected to gmail and after a few weeks I have almost 4 giga. And I know that very soon the account will be full. I have to empty it very often.

Note that I receive less messages and attachments with this account than with other gmail Imap accounts I have which are almost empty even if they store more messages. That's why I don't think the problem come from gmail.

The problem is that perhaps The Bat is generating some big cache or big files somewhere.

Also note that very often gmail block my account for a few hours or days with this error message:

IMAP  - Account exceeded command or bandwidth lim its. (Failure)

My feeling is that I modified some fine tune Imap parameter within the Bat or that something is generating big files or big cache.

Any idea?
 
I have just noticed that I have more than 8 giga of TBB files within the Imap folder of this account! Quite strange to have 8 giga of TBB files for 4 giga of data on gmail. Consider also that I set Imap options in order to download locally complete messages. Any idea?
 
Make sure you have no partially completed emails or anything like that
I am not sure what this will do to flags and things like that
But if you are not trembling so far, go into your data directory. Find the IMAP account and go into it. There is a folder named IMAP there. Go into it. I suspect you will find your huge files. either delete them (or zip them so you can go back), then go back to the bat and verify that all is ok in those accounts

You may get a better plan from someone who uses IMAP heavily. I do not - I am a POP user
 
Thanks but my problem is not the huge files that the bat stores locally on my HD. The problem is that something is eating space on my GMAIL account. My problem is a problem of space but online
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