What does "connection logging enabled" mean

Hi all

All this does is log the activity of your connection. Useful if you have a connection problem but otherwise it is surplus so just delete the logs and save a little space. It does not affect the connection it simply logs what it is doing to get a connection for fault finding purposes.

If you open Connection Doctor (from Mail's "Window" menu), "Log Connection Activity" is an option, so if selected, the main Mail window shows "___ messages- Connection Logging Enabled"

I think that users need to be aware that logging connection activity will produce large log files that will eat up your disk space over time. I found that I had enabled connection logging when searching for files that were using up my disk space.

If you open Finder Go Go to Folder and type in:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail

This shows you how much space is being used by these files.

I have the same question, however, when I try to open the link to "See the answer in context" I see only a green box with "In response to ….| This solved my question." Below it is written, "Thanks for your reply…"

If there's an answer to "What does 'Connection Logging Enabled' mean?" it's not apparent from this thread.

What device are you using when you see this? Mac computer? Apple mobile device? Apple TV?

1961templar: Thank you for this response. It answer the question and I see that I need to de-click the"Log Connection Activity" box. Thank you. It begs the next question (I am not that computer savvy): What happens, beside getting rid of perhaps unecessary data, if one deletes those logs?

I was curious about this too so I disabled connection logging and moved the log files to a folder on the desktop.

These files used almost 1.3GB so the real estate required by these log files is substantial.

I'll report back in a week or so with the results of this little experiment.

The question was never really answered. Evo-stevo found the answer else where.

Hey Bob, So what happened when you deleted the files after disabling connection logging. You posted back in April and said you were going to report back. Im having that problem as well. Thanks.