Outlook 2003 POP email downloading very slow

[Dan Dixon]

Outlook 2003 was working well for downloading my POP email, but now POP3
email downloads are very slow.
(Several seconds per email now, instead of many per second before)

Other internet related activities seem to be working at the same speed so I
feel
confident it is not my connection (I'm on cable.)

I am unaware that I did anything to cause this. (However I did install the
latest NVIDIA drivers, FrontPage 2003, and reinstalled Symantec AntiVirus
Corporate 8.1)

I tried disabling Symantec Antivirus and that seem to have no effect on the
speed. After discovering the problem I did the office updates but this also
had no effect.

It has now been like this for several days.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Where you using the Junk Mail Filter before the updates? (If not, might
want to see if the option is enabled now. Junk Mail Filter will slow the
POP3 download as each item is looked at before adding to the PST.)

 

[Dan Dixon]

The Junk Mail Filter is not on. Turning that off was one of the first things
I did when I originally installed it.

The speed difference is at least a factor of 10. Like I said before it takes
several seconds per email where before it downloaded several email per
second.

Any other ideas?

Dan

 

[Dan Dixon]

Alright, I have figured out what caused the slow down but it still doesn't
make any sense...

The downloading of email gets very slow after I add a second POP email
account and then do a global send/receive.

However, if I cancel the global send/receive and choose to send/receive only
one specific account, the downloading of email goes much faster. (like by a
factor of 10)

Any ideas why this is or is this some crazy bug in Outlook 2003?

Dan



(Thanks Neo for the earlier response.)

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

ah... Outlook 2003 will download from both (all accounts) simultaneously
rather than one after the next like older versions. In theory it is
supposed to speed up mail retrieval.