Has anyone ever seen this? Didn't find much info on the googles, so I wonder if this is a new issue?
This explains why my network has been so crappy lately. Another reason to hate Windows 8. Thanks Microsoft!
(The only fix I know of is remove the Mail, Calendar and People app. Which is probably not a bad idea anyway but still what a joke!! gg Microsoft)
UPDATE: Problem Solved.
I emptied out all the messages that had build up in the junk e-mail folder and viola suddenly mail, calendar and people stopped downloading messages.
Let me explain. I have an e-mail service provided by my website provider that I use for my primary e-mail, and primarily use Windows Mail for Desktop as my e-mail client. (I still use the Win8 Mail App for the laptop, phone and tablet). All my e-mail clients are configured for IMAP so that all of my e-mail is synchronized across all of my devices.
Well, for some reason, I've had this long standing problem Windows Mail (for Desktop) and the junk e-mail folder on the e-mail server. What would happen is every time I synchronized e-mail, I would get a popup saying Windows Mail had determined some of it was probably junk mail and moved it to the junk folder. But when I try to click and view the message, it would disappear from the list as if deleted and then re-appear again moments later. It was an annoying bug but harmless as far as I knew. It basically meant I wasn't able to read junk mail or delete it. No biggie, right?
Boy was I wrong.
I just checked my e-mail quota on the server. I had more than 3,000 duplicate e-mails in the junk e-mail folder that hadn't been cleaned because the same 8 or 9 items that Windows Mail had tried to move to the junk folder had been duplicated hundreds of times!! Clearly this is a bug!! (My guess is the Windows Mail inadvertently duplicated the message every time it synchronized messages)
At this point I can only presume that my Win8 Mail App was continuously downloading the messages from the junk folder though I have no way to confirm. My best evidence is that I watched-- in real time-- the "Communications Service" went from 3 mbps to 0.0 mbps when I purged all the messages from the junk folder (on the server side) and it has been there ever since..
So anyway there you have it. It was in fact "real traffic" over the network due to a bug with regards to the interaction of Windows mail and the mail provider and Win8 mail. As a long term solution I've configured the desktop mail application to use POP3 and delete messages after 30 days and think that should work.
This explains why my network has been so crappy lately. Another reason to hate Windows 8. Thanks Microsoft!
(The only fix I know of is remove the Mail, Calendar and People app. Which is probably not a bad idea anyway but still what a joke!! gg Microsoft)
UPDATE: Problem Solved.
I emptied out all the messages that had build up in the junk e-mail folder and viola suddenly mail, calendar and people stopped downloading messages.
Let me explain. I have an e-mail service provided by my website provider that I use for my primary e-mail, and primarily use Windows Mail for Desktop as my e-mail client. (I still use the Win8 Mail App for the laptop, phone and tablet). All my e-mail clients are configured for IMAP so that all of my e-mail is synchronized across all of my devices.
Well, for some reason, I've had this long standing problem Windows Mail (for Desktop) and the junk e-mail folder on the e-mail server. What would happen is every time I synchronized e-mail, I would get a popup saying Windows Mail had determined some of it was probably junk mail and moved it to the junk folder. But when I try to click and view the message, it would disappear from the list as if deleted and then re-appear again moments later. It was an annoying bug but harmless as far as I knew. It basically meant I wasn't able to read junk mail or delete it. No biggie, right?
Boy was I wrong.
I just checked my e-mail quota on the server. I had more than 3,000 duplicate e-mails in the junk e-mail folder that hadn't been cleaned because the same 8 or 9 items that Windows Mail had tried to move to the junk folder had been duplicated hundreds of times!! Clearly this is a bug!! (My guess is the Windows Mail inadvertently duplicated the message every time it synchronized messages)
At this point I can only presume that my Win8 Mail App was continuously downloading the messages from the junk folder though I have no way to confirm. My best evidence is that I watched-- in real time-- the "Communications Service" went from 3 mbps to 0.0 mbps when I purged all the messages from the junk folder (on the server side) and it has been there ever since..
So anyway there you have it. It was in fact "real traffic" over the network due to a bug with regards to the interaction of Windows mail and the mail provider and Win8 mail. As a long term solution I've configured the desktop mail application to use POP3 and delete messages after 30 days and think that should work.
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