Fred Heumann wrote: > Dan, > > Welcome to the club... A few months back I posted regarding the same > delayafter much discussion, it seems to be a function of adding Entourage > files to those able to be searched by Spotlight. It seems it¹s scanning the > incoming files to add those to Spotlight¹s index for access in searches. > That¹s the only thing that seems reasonable. You can turn that off on the > last panel of Preferences and see if that affects your situation. > > That said, the problem went away for a while, but now seem to be back for > meand I have no easy answer. It could be due to a Security Update, or > repairing permissions...I¹ve done no updates or rebuilds to Entourage in the > meantime.
Thanks Fred, I obviously missed your previous posts. I just tried disabling the Spotlight pref in Entourage but it made no difference at all. I've been trying to trouble shoot this problem by sending a batch of ten test emails to myself. When Entourage tries to receive mail, I have noticed that the Progress window shows that four emails are smoothly received, at which point Entourage freezes for three to four seconds with a normal cursor, followed by the spinning wheel. It seems as if Entourage is stuck on the fifth email, although I think it's actually struggling with the ones already received. During the freeze, no new emails are visible in the inbox. After about 15 seconds, Entourage unfreezes for a split second and five messages are instantly displayed in the inbox. Entourage then freezes again and repeats the entire process as it retrieves the next five test emails. >From this it appears that Entourage processes incoming emails in batches of four or five, and is having trouble processing the emails once they have been downloaded from the server for some reason. I've eliminated Rules, Mailing List Manager, and Spotlight Preferences as possible culprits by disabling these things and finding that they don't make any difference. Ernest Maples wrote: > Do you, by any chance, have a very large number of already-read messages > residing on various active folders in Entourage? By active folders, I mean > folders that Entourage filters your incoming mail into. Here is why I ask. > A short time back, Entourage (2004) on my Mac began freezing for 2 - 5 > minutes after downloading mail. The progress line would disappear, and the > "ping" would occur, but nothing would work. After the 2 - 5 minute period, > everything would work fine. I finally noticed that I had nearly 2000 > messages "filed" in my active folders, so I spend most of one afternoon > turning the important information into sticky notes then deleting the > messages from Entourage. (My thought was that perhaps Spotlight was having > to index each of them -- or some other such nonsense). In any event, once I > did that, the problem went away, and Entourage has worked perfectly every > since. Right now I have about 10,000 emails stored in 22 folders. I wouldn't consider that a "very large" number...more like just "large"...but maybe it is, I don't know. I also currently have 117 projects in the Project Center and thousands of tasks, notes, calendar events, and contacts in those modules. A couple of times a year I periodically archive and delete emails and generally clean up the various modules, so next time I clean house (probably over the holidays) I'll see if that makes any difference. If so, then I guess Entourage just can't handle what I'm asking it to do. Thanks for the suggestion. In the mean time, does anybody have any suggestions as to what else I might try? Dan Dixon -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
