IMAP Help Please!

[Guest]

I have an IMAP subfolder off the inbox in Outlook with about 5,000 e-mails in
it. If I click off that folder and back to it, Outlook will frequently try
to "update cached headers" which takes about 5 full minutes. This operation
takes way too long to happen as frequently as it does. Is there any way
around this?

I have attempted to archive some of the messages in the IMAP folder as a
potential solution. When I run archive to move everything older than 3
months, it seems to run for a second, but then it doesn't actually move
anything over. Does archiving not work with IMAP folders? I assume that it
does simply because of the fact that it lets me select IMAP folders when I am
within the archive screen. I have tried both manual and auto archiving.

Any ideas? Thanks...

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have an IMAP subfolder off the inbox in Outlook with about 5,000
e-mails in it. If I click off that folder and back to it, Outlook
will frequently try to "update cached headers" which takes about 5
full minutes. This operation takes way too long to happen as
frequently as it does. Is there any way around this?

When you reopen an IMAP folder, Outlook asks the server for the list of
headers, in case something changed. I don't think there's any way around
this.

I have attempted to archive some of the messages in the IMAP folder
as a potential solution. When I run archive to move everything older
than 3 months, it seems to run for a second, but then it doesn't
actually move anything over. Does archiving not work with IMAP
folders? I assume that it does simply because of the fact that it
lets me select IMAP folders when I am within the archive screen. I
have tried both manual and auto archiving.

Don't use archiving. Just select the messages and move them yourself to a
local PST.

 

[Guest]

Hi! I have the same problem as Chad in Outlook 2003; no archiving activity.
The archiving worked fine in Outlook 2000.

Don't use archiving. Just select the messages and move them yourself to a
local PST.

No solution for me, too many IMAP folders to go through dragging and
dropping. I really want to use archiving - is there no other solution than to
downgrade to 2000?

Regards
Lars