One more thing to add to Raul's comments (which btw, I think he's right): I've seen this issue happen when an ISP has a particularly slow POP3 or SMTP server, or you have a particularly slow internet connection.
If anything slows down outlook from receiving email when it first starts up, you can get a "not responding" message because it's not handling the main window, and then you can get the "synchronizing" message, as it's going through the download and upload. If you have an exchange server, and you've set outlook to used cached exchange mode, this is particularly time consuming at startup as it has to run through everything the exchange server has in your mailbox to see if you have it locally, then the reverse, it runs through everything you have locally to see if it's been loaded to the exchange server. There are many good reasons to use the cached exchange server mode, rather than the straight server mode, but this is unfortunately the price if you're using it. As for Raul's "bloated" comment, well, I just have to say I'd give up anything at all before I'd give up Outlook; it's precisely because it's "bloated" that it's so useful. Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:17 AM > To: GW Info Discussion List > Subject: Re: needing help with computer security > > If Outlook is doing this, you probably have an imap or > exchange server > setup. This can unfortunately make Outlook respond slow while it does > its magic. Depending on how large your folders are, this > could make it > not respond for a while as Outlook is too bloated to synchronize and > respond to you at the same time. > > Hope this helps. > > Jo Taliaferro wrote the following on 1/21/2009 10:14 AM: > > Hello, > > I am using Windows XP and I have AVG installed. When I go > to my e-mail in > > Outlook, (Office 2007) I find that Outlook inbox has to "synchronize > > folders". I use a wireless LAN to connect to the internet > but I am never > > sure how necessary it is to have Windows firewall turned > on. I want to > > know why I keep getting Outlook not responding messages > repeatedly when I > > first try to download my e-mail. Then, "Outlook is > sychrinizing folders". > > Do I need to have this happen all the time? Happens with > Vista as well. > > Using WE 7.01. > > Regards, > > > > Jo Taliaferro, empowering people to live with their choices > > > > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will > receive it. > > > > All GW-Info messages are archived at > http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through > and sorted using the search > > form at the bottom of the page. > > > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > > of the message. > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of > virus signature database 3785 (20090121) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos -- GW Micro Technical Support > Voice: 260-489-3671 -- Fax: 260-489-2608 > WEB: http://www.gwmicro.com > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of > virus signature database 3785 (20090121) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will > receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at > http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through > and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
