TSGL: Outlook Express

[The Computer Whisperer]

try deleting and recreating your email account.

Justin

On 17/01/2008, jonpan <jonpan at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Cosmio and Russ. I moved  my many inbox messages into a sub folder
> but it made no difference.
> The problem occurs not on downloading the emails but earlier, during
> "Receiving List of Messages from Server".
>
> John
> Od/G
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Von Hatten, Cosmio - Lions Gate Internet Ltd." <cosmiovh at lgisp.net>
> To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Outlook Express
>
>
> OE doesn't like to have many messages in the inbox. It's a good idea
> to try and keep the inbox with as few messages as possible. Keeping
> messages in sub folders is not a problem.
>
> Cosmio Von Hatten
> Technical Consultant / Client Relations
> Imagen Communications Inc.
>
> Tel: 604.694.1191 Fax: 604.320.1607
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com]
> On Behalf Of Russell W. Coover
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:56 AM
> To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Outlook Express
>
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> While I don't use OE, the problem may be similar to a problem I had
> using
> Outlook a while ago. I had left approximately 400 messages in my inbox
> and
> noticed that downloading email into this folder was very slow. Moving
> those
> emails to another folder solved my problem.
>
> I suspect the problem was caused by Outlook trying to sort the new
> emails
> into the old, checking dates and times on each of the old and the new.
>
>
> Russ Coover
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com]
> On
> Behalf Of jonpan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:41 AM
> To: ListTSG
> Subject: TSGL: Outlook Express
>
> Hello all,
>
> When I click Send and Receive with OE I get a window with
> "Checking for new messages on Provider" and "Receiving List of
> Messages from
> Server"
>
> It takes some 25 secs to run from left to right, then any messages are
> downloaded reasonably fast. The 25 secs applies even when there are no
> messages.
>
> My wife's PC has exactly the same settings but the operation is almost
> instantaneous.
>
> I've tried switching off the firewall and AV, to no avail.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
> Od/G
>
> XP 2. One WLAN Router for both PCs
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