Outlook very slow.

[bothered]

Outlook is getting slower and slower. It now takes about a minite to collect emails where it used to be seconds. I don't keep emails, when there is 10 or so I delete them all.
Anybody have any tips as to how to speed it up?

[LIN]

do any of these situations (http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HP011164701033&CTT=4&Origin=CH062556091033) apply to you, bothered?


LIN

[bothered]

No. I've done or meet all those thanks Lin. I'm wondering if it's ntl messing me about again. I checked email just now and it collected nine of them very quickly. I'll just have to keep my eye on it.

[Dexter]

Often your download speed will depend on the amount of traffic at the server. Many servers will "cache" outoging mail for a while, then send it in bursts, so if you are hitting it around that time, you will see slow downloads. Plus, with the marked increase in the amount of spam and virus mailings going on these days, mail servers will often lag under the extra traffic. Help keep the internet fast: keep your own computers trash-free, and tell everyone you know to do so as well.

Dexter...

[bothered]

Often your download speed will depend on the amount of traffic at the server. Many servers will "cache" outoging mail for a while, then send it in bursts, so if you are hitting it around that time, you will see slow downloads. Plus, with the marked increase in the amount of spam and virus mailings going on these days, mail servers will often lag under the extra traffic. Help keep the internet fast: keep your own computers trash-free, and tell everyone you know to do so as well.

Dexter...

Exactly, I think that's it.
Thanks both.

[MediaMan]

I can confirm that.

I access two accounts. One is on the SM server and that is pretty lickety split but my ISP (Shaw) can bog down at times. Bog down is a relative term...sometimes it's an instant start to the download and sometimes it takes 10 or 20 seconds then starts downloading the email.

How much email you have in your Outlook on your own box doesn't affect it though..unless you are like one of my employees who seems to keep EVERYTHING. "Your email has 450 messages in the inbox, 1000 in the deleted items and 700 in the sent items"

lordy.

[Gobbles]

1. are you accessing pop accounts or an exchange server?

Have you run a compact on the pst file?