Your inbox is probably overfull and possibly corrupt. and / or your entire
message store is corrupt.

Go to File | Identities and set up a new Identity. That will give you a new
Identity. Then go to File | Import | Messages and import from the older
Identity. Then select all the inbox messages that were imported and move
them to another folder (create one first). Then go to File | Folder |
Compact in the inbox to compact it and shrink it down to nothing.

That should take care of the problem.

See also www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx points 2, 3 and 7.

I'd suggest you backup your messages too, before they get lost, which
happens a lot.

steve

"Ben Stevenson" wrote in message
...
When I first open Inbox, there is the hour glass next to the pointer.
Messages are downloaded but I cannot open or delete them. I have to wait
for about two to three minutes for the hour glass to go away and then I
can proceed as usual. What can I do about this hour glass problem?
TIA