Do you receive any errors? Also, a few questions:
- what version of Outlook are you using?
- have you run ScanPST.EXE on your PST file?

"belto" wrote in message
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I am using MS outlook to download my e mail messages
Increasingly this has become slower and today I cannot download any.
I have visited my providers web mail and there they are.
Suggesting that it is the Outlook causing the problem
Are there any suggestions on what the nexts steps I should take to correct
the situation