Entourage on exchange and newsgroups

[Kip Ruefle]

Hello,

I am running Entourage 11.2.1 in full Exchange mode. Aside from large
mailboxes, sent items and deleted items slowing down performance, things
work fairly well, however I have also been reading more of my newsgroups via
Entourage as well and over the last week have noticed more and more
spinning ball, and sluggishness and hanging in the application.

I know that when this first happened after I applied Srv Pack 2 and the
latest patch, performance increased after I cleaned out my DEL and SENT
items, and pruned my mailboxes.

Will Newsgroup affect the performance as well? The newsgroup are all
Microsoft. I do not manage newsgroups on my Exchange server.

-Kip

 

[Mickey Stevens]

Newsgroup messages, like mail messages are stored in the database. If you
read many newsgroups, the messages might add a considerable amount to your
database.

In that case, you can empty the newsgroup cache whenever you wish by
Control-clicking the news server icon in the Folder List, and selecting
"Empty Cache" from the contextual menu that appears.