Version of Outlook? Email environment - POP3, Exchange? If you use a PST,
what size is it? Are there any error messages and/or numbers? Are you
scanning incoming and outgoing mail with your antiirus software?

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Kathleen Orland - MVP Outlook
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> After messages have been rcvd, it takes app 30secs to delete or to open
> another message. On outlook express it takes a fraction of a sec.
> Problem started a few months ago.