Question : Outlook suddenly takes a long time to do a send/receive

This has been something that i've seen before we upgraded to Exchange 2003 (We came from Exchagne 5.5).  Also i've seen this happen with Outlook 2000, Outlook XP(2002), and even Outlook 2003 clients.

Basically sometimes Outlook takes a long time to do a send/receive.  When you look at the send/receive details ,you generally get some rediculous time frame until the send/receive is expected to be completed.  Generally it finishes before the displayed timeframe, but none the less, it takes a while.

This problem does not seem to be "company wide" either.  it only effects one user generally, no one else reports issues.  I can't even get my Outlook client to take that long.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?  The clients are set to auto send/receive every 5 minutes, so there isnt all that much data being downloaded during the send/receive.

Answer : Outlook suddenly takes a long time to do a send/receive

Is the the computers network connection slow?  How are network speeds in other applications? Is outlook set up as a MAPI client or pop3? Does this happen with normal email or just when sending/recieving big attachements? Is the computer free of viruses/spyware? Most isolated problems with outlook being slow in my experience has been related to physical network problems (poorly terminated wall jacks, crappy or kinked patch cables).