EP said:
When I have a high volume of emials coming in, it makes other programs that
I'm using run slow
Well, do these unidentified other applications also connect to the
network? If so, they can get slowed down because they have to share the
bandwidth that is being consumed by Outlook (or any other application
that is transferring packets). Look at the QoS (Quality of Service)
settings in your router to lower the priority for network traffic over
the POP and IMAP ports (25, 995, 143, and 993).
Any application that consumes lots of CPU cycles is going to impact
other running applications. In Task Manager, Processes tab, right-click
on the outlook.exe and lower its priority. See if that helps.
If you have your antivirus program inspecting your e-mails (which is
superfluous protection), and if you are reciving huge-sized e-mails, the
AV program has a lot more bytes to interrogate. This results in more
disk activity. Low CPU usage but high disk activity can slow a host.
Disabled the e-mail scanner in your AV program. For some AV programs,
this doesn't work (it does not get their transparent proxy out of the
path for e-mail traffic) and you have to uninstall the AV product and
then do a custom install where you do NOT include their e-mail scanner
component.
