Quoting STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]>:

> I have at least one user  (possibly three) who reported amazingly
> slow response times dealing with a large inbox today.  Slow as in
> minutes to do things.
>
> Yeah, I know that larger mailboxes take more to process, but at
> least one user has had a corpulent mailbox for months now, so
> that isn't a factor I don't think.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --STeve Andre'
>

Are you talking webmail or some other email client?

As someone else pointed out, webmail can be notoriously slow on  
inboxes exceeding 1500 messages, especially under load.

If it's webmail, moving messages from the inbox to other folders can  
have a tremendous impact on response times.

-- 

Joe Besko