Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Aug 22 07:40:04 CDT 2008
Would you believe that deleting about 1.5GB of old emails - mostly with big attachments (and mostly from the sent folder) seems to have greatly improved the situation? So now it's a lot more snappier moving from one email to another. But it still practically stops the machine when it's receiving emails which is pretty annoying. IIRC neither T-bird nor OE ever did that. So I may just give Pegasus a whirl. It's in contention with Thunderbird and OE. Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:50 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Email Program Again 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com