Thus far Runbox has not enforced any bandwidth quotas aside from the 5000 messages per day limit. We now introduce a tentative bandwidth limit to curb extreme usage. This will not affect normal or even heavy usage, so most of our users will not notice any difference.
The reason for the policy change is that our hosting provider has changed their bandwidth pricing policy, and that content-based message processing such as spam scanning is becoming increasingly resource intensive.
We expect this to release resources that will allow Runbox to provide better services for everyone.
The bandwidth quota includes email you receive, email and attachments you download via POP3 and IMAP, messages you send via SMTP and from the webmail, and attachments downloaded from the webmail.
The new quotas are as follows:
- Trial users - 250 MB per week/1 GB per month
- Subscribers - 2.5 GB per week/10 GB per month
A bandwidth usage graph or similar will soon appear in your webmail when you are close to reaching your weekly limit.
- Geir