tuning cyrus?

[Ciprian Marius Vizitiu]

> The "solution" to all of this is to leave Outlook running all 
> the time.

I've seen Outlook fetching headers for like 100 new messages (from a 2000
messages box) in a matter of seconds on Monday morning fresh start; and it
did it on 2 years old WS hardware plus 3 years old server hardware. But one
must always remember that Outlook keeps a local copy of the headers in a PST
file associated with that IMAP account. If that file resides on a badly
fragmented FAT32 and/or the .pst file is approaching the 2GB limit "strange
things start to happen". :-s