I would make a backup and then she needs to do a File | Folder | Compact
all. Then clear the Temporary Internet Files in IE and then run a defrag on
the hard drive.

See if that improves the performance.

Also check www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 and 3

steve

"JB" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to the size of mailboxes in Outlook Express 6? My wife
currently has over 28,000 messages stored in a variety of user mailboxes,
not
teh default mailboxes, and is now getting an error message when she tries
to
reply to an email "there was an error opening this message, there is not
enough memory"

Her total mailboxes contain about 1 gb, running windows xp pro sp2, with
512mb of memory.

She is also having trouble viewing email messages, when she scrolls the
message dissapears, or turns into lines on the page with no text, as if
the
program is lagging.

JB