Outlook takes forever to download new mail
 

I am having a problem where Outlook takes hours to download mail if I
have more than 20 or so messages on the server (POP). If I am using
Outlook and new messages come in one at a time...no problem. But if I
go offline and then come back and have a large amount of messages
(especially if they have attachments) it gets the first couple of
emails and then grinds to a halt and takes a few minutes per email
(outlook is totally frozen while downloading).

If I have 5 or 10 messages it's more or less fine. If new mail arrives
as I'm working no problem at all. If I have 100 on the server, then I
can expect my outlook to be frozen for over an hour when I open it.

I've tried archiving old mail, deleting junk email and deleted items,
defragging my drive, etc. I have 40 gb free on the drive and 2Gb of
RAM so I am at a loss.

I am guessing this is a memory or disk space issue as it has only
started recently as my inbox got huge.

Any ideas?

Outlook 2007 on Windows Vista (Lenovo X61s laptop).

Outlook takes forever to download new mail
 

Lan or Modem .Version of Outlook etc You did not give too many details

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I am having a problem where Outlook takes hours to download mail if I
have more than 20 or so messages on the server (POP). If I am using
Outlook and new messages come in one at a time...no problem. But if I
go offline and then come back and have a large amount of messages
(especially if they have attachments) it gets the first couple of
emails and then grinds to a halt and takes a few minutes per email
(outlook is totally frozen while downloading).

If I have 5 or 10 messages it's more or less fine. If new mail arrives
as I'm working no problem at all. If I have 100 on the server, then I
can expect my outlook to be frozen for over an hour when I open it.

I've tried archiving old mail, deleting junk email and deleted items,
defragging my drive, etc. I have 40 gb free on the drive and 2Gb of
RAM so I am at a loss.

I am guessing this is a memory or disk space issue as it has only
started recently as my inbox got huge.

Any ideas?

Outlook 2007 on Windows Vista (Lenovo X61s laptop).

Outlook takes forever to download new mail
 

Outlook 2007 SP1

Lan connection. T1 from the office, cable modem from home. It happens
regardless of where I connect from (hotel, coffee shop, home, work,
etc). It's not the network.

On Oct 14, 5:35*pm, "Peter Foldes" wrote:
Lan or Modem .Version of Outlook etc *You did not give too many details

http://66.39.69.143/goodpost.htm

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Peter

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