fRuStRaTeD said:
When I receive a new e-mail with an attachment, it takes forever to open that
e-mail. Can anyone please advise? It's frustrating to wait 5min. for one
e-mail just to open.
Thank you!
That would be impossible. Attachments are not floating somewhere out in
cyberspace nor are they separate of the e-mail. Attachments are *in* the
e-mail. There are only 3 sections to an e-mail: headers, blank delimiter
line, and body. The attachments are MIME sections within the body of the
e-mail. It all comes together. All e-mail - and I mean ALL of it - is sent
as plain text. HTML is text. RTF is text with a .dat attachment to relay
the formatting. Attachments, even binary files, have to get encoded into
long text strings (which bloats the their size by 137%, or much larger)
inside of MIME parts inside the body of the e-mail. An e-mail is just one
document, not a document with separate attachments hanging on the teats.
At best, and to eliminate downloading huge-sized e-mails, you could
configure Outlook to not download messages that exceed a user-configured
maximum size. You'll get just the headers for those big e-mails. You will
then have to manually mark and then manually download the marked items to
retrieve the ones that you want, or delete the others that you don't want.
How long it takes to retrieve an e-mail depends on what type of network
connection you have but which you never bothered to mention (dial-up,
satellite, DSL, cable broadband). Speed also depends on how much bandwidth
the mail server chooses to give you as it has many concurrent connections to
which it needs to balance that load and provide some response to all of
them. The size of the e-mail obviously has an effect on how long it takes
to get it. If you permit the superfluous scan of e-mails by your anti-virus
program then that takes time, too, to interrogate all those bytes. All
security software, like firewalls, incur an impact on speed so if you go
hogwild in installing multiple security products to add a ridiculous
thickness in layering of protection then it all will impact the
responsiveness of your host.
