Send\Receive is slow

[Dom]

Hey guys

I have a 4MB DSL line at home, but for some reason my Outlook 2003
takes upwards of 2 minutes to do a simple send\receive (and I'm not
trying to send or download emails with large attachments either). This
problem only started earlier today, when I tried to open Outlook, but
it seemed to hang. So, I ended the process in the Task Manager, and
then was able to open it okay the next time around.

Previously, a send\receive would usually only take about 20-30
seconds...

I have tried running Scanpst.exe (which found some errors, and
corrected them), but the slowness still persists.

Any suggestions?

TIA

 

[Guest]

Hey Dom

Just as maintenance issue you could try compacting you mailbox. This may
improve performance.

You may try running outlook in safe mode (outlook.exe /safe) to see if that
gives you any clues. Safe mode disables any add-ins and customizations.

Also, pst files that get to be 1.5 GB in size begin to have problems if I
recall correctly. This is pretty massive for a pst file, so it most likely
is not an issue in your case.

Ian

 

[Dom]

Hey Ian

I've already tried compacting my mailbox, and my PST isn't too big
(400MB). Out of frustration, I decided to call up my ISP... guess what?
They were doing maintenance on their mail servers!

It's all good now