On or near 8/30/03 8:28 AM, Remo Del Bello at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 8/29/2003 10:54 PM, Mark Goodman deftly typed out: > >> I have about thirty email accounts. I check all of them every five minutes. >> Running under OS9 this never seemed to be a problem. Now that I am using the >> supposedly faster OSX (and the new screwed up and not improved) Entourage X, >> I get the Rainbow Pinwheel that totally stops all activity every time >> Entourage checks for mail. Does this happen on everyone's system or do I >> have something set wrong. I thought that Jaguar was supposed to be better at >> handling multiple simultaneous tasks but so far with Entourage this does not >> seem to be the case. > > It seems to be worse as of the Office 10.1.4 update. I'm getting the SPOD > (Spinning Pizza of Death) every time Entourage accesses my accounts. It > wasn't this bad with 10.1.3... > I find that what slows things down is various AppleScripts invoked by rules. In particular, if you are using SpamSieve, it can hang your whole system while it checks your messages. (It's worth the delay, but I sure wish it were faster and less demanding on the system.) -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://members.thinkaccess.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
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