I found the culprit. I had a WinZip add-on. When I removed it the delay
disappeared.
"Fred Jacobowitz" wrote in message
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I am running Outlook 2003 SP2 latest updates. After composing a letter and
clicking on SEND it takes literally 4-5 seconds for the letter to go to the
Outbox (independent of the size of the letter). During that time my screen
freezes. I have compacted the file. Other accounts work fine. My file
is 73,425 KB. Is that relatively large and would that account for the
delay? Should I make a new account and save what I need using export and
import functions?

Thanks,
Fred Jacobowitz