TSGL: Outlook Express

[Tilman Brandl]

John,

the only ideas that might apply here:

1. I once read that OE works well up to a limit of about 2 GB. For most 
people that does never happen. You could anyway check your OE folder with 
the *.dbx files for this, and save away older messages if you're near or 
over the limit.

2. Have you tried to repair/compress your folders - in my German version 
it's under Datei | Ordner  Alle Ordner komprimieren

3. there should be a logfile somewhere showing what exacly happens when you 
connect ... it could give hints as to what OE is waiting for. If it doesn't 
wait, it could be a server-issue too.

Grüsse
Tilman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jonpan
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
  Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:24 PM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: Outlook Express


  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