Some time ago, I wrote about excruciatingly slow e-mail operation. Please see:
https://licn.typepad.com/my_weblog/2019/11/very-very-s-l-o-w-e-mail-john-dunn-consultant-ambertec-pe-pc.html
This problem had persisted with nobody offering any suggestion about how to deal with it, but then just the other day, something happened. Take a look at this altered image from the above essay:
That little picture of two letter envelopes never attracted my attention, but at one tiny moment, that image was replaced by a small black square within which were white characters reading "34%". When I slid the cursor over that black square, it reverted back to the dual envelopes image and up came a message reading: "Microsoft Outlook is synchronizing folders." That dual envelopes icon always vanished when the whole process would finally finish itself.
Synchronizing what to what??? I had, and I have, no idea what's being synchronized to what but it led me to discover something.
This computer dates way, way back. I had been saving old e-mail messages in an archive for possible later access and I often used my archive in just that way. However, dating back to 2009, I had allowed more than ten-thousand messages to accumulate in there. Yeah!! Ten thousand.
I decided to delete everything older than one year and since having done so, these long time intervals have stopped happening.
Now, when sending or receiving e-mails, that dual envelope icon still appears but it vanishes pretty quickly and the messaging process completes itself quickly as well. If I'm quick, I can move the icon over that image and still see the synchronization message, but the crippling slowness seems to have come to an end.
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