@big_chris
I don't think that the Email app is not fit for purpose because I have to an IMAP account set up and have very little data usage.
I suggested K9 mail because I use it for my work IMAP account to keep them seperate from my personal emails, and, I find that as with most third party apps there are more options when setting up the account. Unfortunately I don't have a POP3 account I can test on my phone but I would imagine that K9 mail would have the same options as the IMAP setup so you could turn off more settings that you don't need, it would also tell you if it is the settings on the Stock app and at least give you access to your work Emails if the data usage is more normal.
Hope this helps
Steve
@big_chris
Had a quick scan back through the thread, no mention of which provider you use for email? (sorry if I missed it)
Can you post the settings you are using?
Pop server =
port =
Security type =
smtp server =
Port =
Security type =
Require Sign in - yes/no
Also what options you have set regarding Email check frequency?
Do you have any "Quiet Hours" settings set on the phone?
What email software do you use on the PC?
What settings are set for that software?
TSD
Hi big_chris, Outtasight and Stampede,
The Vodafone network is passive, so won't be requesting any data, simply passing requested or pushed data between the handset and the server. We would then measure the usage travelling to and from the SIM and record that on the account.
I'm going to pop you each a PM so we can take a closer look for you, compare the usage to previous activity and so on. Just follow the directions in there to get us your details. This will also help us to get this raised for investigation if needed, for example if we can pinpoint a common issue.
You can find your PM inbox here. If you can't access this link, please ensure that the box next to "Turn on private messages" is ticked on this page, and let us know if you need any further assistance.
Dave
A couple of screen shots from my phone in the data analyser... For the whole month I had 35 e-mails, all less than 100kb in size (most about 20-30kb) and one that was 2Mb. There are 3 POP accounts I monitor and this was the sum of all of them. I use Mailwasher on the PC to deal with spam and delete it at the mail server before downloading it anywhere (phone or Outlook). Messages that I don't delete with Mailwasher tend to sit in the POP server for a few days (and visible to the phone) until I fire up the PC that has Outlook and do a send/receive. Outlook is set to delete messages from the POP server as soon as they are downloaded. So messages that arrive and are either deleted by Mailwasher or downloaded and deleted from the mail server by Outlook are often never even downloaded by the phone because it it set to only check the mail server once a day.
The active foreground data use is (I assume) where I was in the mail client program and actively forcing a unscheduled mail check or sending replies to messages. It's a tiny amount of data. The traffic was all this "background data".
Looking at the second worst offender, the newly updated BBC News widget will have to go as it consumed 31Mb updating its photos in the background when I wasn't watching it. The old BBC News thingy only updated its stories when you opened the app. The new one "helpfully" chomps your data allowance when you aren't using it.
Hi Guys
There seems to be some isolated cases of the high data usage using the stock Email app, the cases I've seen are all using POP3 accounts. I use the Stock Email account for my Emails using an IMAP account and have no problems at all.
I use K9 mail for my work Emails (IMAP account again) and this is can be customised to reduce data usage, the forum members I have helped with POP3 accounts all report that the data usage drops to "next to nothing" using K9, it seems that K9 just handles POP3 better than the stock Email.
Hope this helps
Steve
Hi,
I also seem to be afflicted by this bug!
Average monthly usage in the 4 months available in my online account is 97.75 MB, which has shot up to 3.44GB in the billing cycle for June!!! 
Again for me the only change has been upgrade to ICS which I did around the 12th May. Again looking back through my online bill, it is after this that the daily use of data jumps dramatically from a high of 39MB (when I was away from home relying solely on mobile internet), to a low of 77MB (when back at home using wifi in the evenings).
I recommend all who are having these issues to check back through their bills in an effort to tie in increased data usage with the date of firmware update.
I'm shortly going to call vodafone to try to resolve the issue and get some recompence (sic?) for the increased bill I will get as a result of this bug.
@big_chris
Is it a POP3 account, I ask because all the reports of this problem I've seen have been with POP3 accounts, I haven't seen any reports of this happening with IMAP accounts.
The solution is to use K9 mail, this third party app appears to handle POP3 accounts better than the Stock Email app.
I have suggested this solution to a few people now and had no reports of any problems afterwards.
Hope this helps
Steve
