And for Gmail specifically you might want to look at the mbsync option PipelineDepth
As noted in the .mbsyncrc gist:
> The value is "used to limit average bandwidth consumption (GMail may require this if you have a very fast connection)." Turns out the same is true for iCloud. There's probably some optimized value greater than "1" that can be used, but this works for me.
As noted in the .mbsyncrc gist:
> The value is "used to limit average bandwidth consumption (GMail may require this if you have a very fast connection)." Turns out the same is true for iCloud. There's probably some optimized value greater than "1" that can be used, but this works for me.
I actually have it set to 5 now.