Mailbox size affects computer's speed?

[Arniewine]

I'm running Outlook 2003 on Windows XP _Pro. My Inbox size is 41Mb and Sent
Items is 18 Mb. These files are on my hard drive, not a server.

Hard Drive is not fragmented. Size is 74.5Gb with 65.3 Gb available.

My boss says the number of messages in Outlook is slowing my system down. Is
this true? I have 7500 in Inbox and 5600 in Sent folder.

Thank you!
Arnie

 

[Gordon]

I'm running Outlook 2003 on Windows XP _Pro. My Inbox size is 41Mb and
Sent
Items is 18 Mb. These files are on my hard drive, not a server.

Hard Drive is not fragmented. Size is 74.5Gb with 65.3 Gb available.

My boss says the number of messages in Outlook is slowing my system down.
Is
this true? I have 7500 in Inbox and 5600 in Sent folder.

41 MB is pathetically SMALL! No, it shouldn't be slowing your machine down.
The network traffic may be....

 

[Arniewine]

Thank you, Gordon! Our tech responded to your & my post with:

"One of the issues is still going to be that you have to go in and archive
your mailbox and clean up some of the emails. I will schedule some time to
come up and take a look at it. But, you can't just keep saving every sent
item and every email in the actual inbox."

Is this so?

Arnie

 

[Roady [MVP]]

From a company mail policy point of view; this can be true. For instance,
they could have a mailbox limit of 75MB so you are reaching the limit now.
It could also be that they archive everything older than a certain date or
from completed projects. In that case; you need to remove those emails as
well.

From a technical point of view; it shouldn't be an issue for most
configurations. The hardware specifics of your machine and additional
software installed on your machine (any Outlook addins?) could allow us to
give a more specific answer.