Why is my Entourage so slow?

[silvrbullet]

I currently use MS Entourage 2008 with my Gmail account. For some reason, receiving e-mail messages is extremely slow. It takes 5-10 minutes to receive 10 emails. When I use Mail, it is much quicker.

Is entourage just slow, or is there a setting I need to adjust somewhere? It doesnt seem to be that slow sending messages, so I'm wondering if I need to adjust something on my incoming server...

any ideas?

 

[ewilson6]

goto into system preferences and click on sharing...uncheck file sharing and windows sharing this should speed up entourage...mine is super fast....downloads hundreds of emails in less than a minute.

--Eric

 

[occamsrazor]

goto into system preferences and click on sharing...uncheck file sharing and windows sharing this should speed up entourage...mine is super fast....downloads hundreds of emails in less than a minute.
--Eric

Why would that have anything to do with the speed of Entourage? I can't see how Entourage speed and File sharing are related. I'm just wondering....

 

[silvrbullet]

I have no idea what file sharing has to do with entourage....?

 

[occamsrazor]

I have no idea what file sharing has to do with entourage....?

My previous post was referring to Eric's suggestion that disabling file sharing speeded up Entourage

 

[ewilson6]

I haven't figured out why it speeds entourage up but it works. Might have to do with entourage being made by Microsoft. I found this secret out just by experimenting with the settings.

--Eric

 

[silvrbullet]

There has to be something else. I searched for others with this problem before I posted, and I haven't seen anyone else complain about it. I will play with my setting when I get home, if worse comes to worse I will just use Mail.

 

[ewilson6]

try this also...

Sometimes linking can cause slowdowns. For example in the Address Book: Once
it opens, click on the name column to re-sort your contacts. That should
cause Entourage to re-sort the list and speed things up.

--Eric