Xtreme Posted January 30, 2005 Posted January 30, 2005 I am setting up email forwarders and I was wondering how are messages forwarded within the same domain affecting bandwidth usage. I understand that email counts twice regardless if it is forwarded or retrieved, but I am not sure if forwarding within the same TCH domain makes it count four times. Here is an example: Regular forwarding to outside (non TCH) domain that count twice: - Email comes in and it uses bandwidth - Email is sent out and it uses bandwidth again Forwarding within the same TCH domain that counts four times: - Email comes in and it uses bandwidth - Email is forwarded within the same domain and it uses bandwidth - Email is received by the second email account and it uses bandwidth - Email is retreived and it uses bandwidth Basically I am wondering whether steps 2 and 3 use bandwidth or are taken care of by a simple move between email folders. Thanks Quote
TCH-Don Posted January 31, 2005 Posted January 31, 2005 Welcome to the Family and your new home! you are right e-mail received and e-mail sent or forwarded uses bandwidth any traffic in your account uses bandwith However the third example would use bandwith three times received forwarded to another account of yours received by the other account We really are like family here. So if you need anything, just ask your new family! We love to help Quote
Xtreme Posted January 31, 2005 Author Posted January 31, 2005 Thanks for answering it quickly. Shouldn't the total be four times since the messages still need to be retreived from the second account? Also, do the attachement files get sent around even when sending mail within the same domain. It seems that the server could be intelligent enough and just copy them instead of going through the trouble of sending them as bunch of packets. Thanks Quote
TCH-Don Posted January 31, 2005 Posted January 31, 2005 Um sure I suppose the other account might want to read the message Attachments are encoded into the message and it is all one file. Unless you are attaching or inserting a lot of graphics, the actual bandwidth for text messages is not that much and you do have a lot of bandwidth to use up Quote
Xtreme Posted January 31, 2005 Author Posted January 31, 2005 I guess I will have to create extra pop accounts for email addresses that receive large attachements. Thanks for the info. Quote
TCH-Don Posted January 31, 2005 Posted January 31, 2005 You are welcome moving for forum organization. Quote
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