Now I'm pissed

[gemfyre]

Outlook Express doesn't want to work now. I'll open it, and more e-mails are coming in, but the view window never shows up and I just get a "not responding" error.

Anyone have any ideas what I should do (the deleted items folder is stupidly huge due to all the spam and doesn't seem to have purged, I think this may be part of the problem).

Please give me useful advice, telling me to install Linux will not help me!

Comments

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

so is it d/loading email and not deleting it from the server (i.e. you are getting the same spam over and over... damn that's frustrating ;)?

but yeah, I'd say there's so much mail on the server that it's choking up. What I'd do is let it download some, but hit the "cancel" button before it has a chance to freeze on you. It should say "finishing current message" and then it'll delete the ones you've successfully downloaded from the server. Do that a few times to clear the backlog--you probably have a big attachment or something holding everything up.