Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Aug 20 17:50:19 CDT 2008
Have you tried Pegasus Mail - I've been using it for the last 12 years or so and wouldn't use anything else: http://www.pmail.com -- Stuart On 20 Aug 2008 at 6:13, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access wrote: > History: To support my clients that need automation, a couple years ago I > switched to Outlook for myself. Before I used Express and Thunderbird. I > had a problem with Thunderbird that I couldn't solve, so that helped push me > into Outlook. The one feature of Outlook that's better (or was) than the > others is the spell check. Really superior. > > Now: Outlook has slowed down to the point where I need to do something about > it. When it gets the mail, it bogs down the machine to the point where > it's annoying - more than. There is often a delay of several seconds when > displaying a message in the preview pane or deleting a message. I do have > several thousand emails saved in folders although I clean out pretty > regularly. > > I am running AVG with email scanner but always have - but I wonder if that > might be causing the delay. Hate to lose that since email's the primary way > to get your machine infected. > > What to do: I could move back to Thunderbird. It was pretty good - > probably better now than when I used it before. Express is fine, too. > Especially if those programs can import the Outlook settings - accounts and > address book (I could leave the old emails behind) Outlook Express was > always good to me. > > Any ideas on a fix for Outlook or a better alternative? > > MTIA, > > Rocky > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Stuart Mclachlan