You could also try a local cliet to see if there is a big difference.
johnh...
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > The clients don't timeout. It's just that listing the contents of large
> > mailboxes (say, a sent-items mailbox) takes on the order of 2-3 minutes or
> > more for about 2000 messages. I know that having smaller mailboxes is the
> > obvious solution, but I don't want to have to start imposing on people's
> > methods of organizing mail.
> 
> Hmm.  That's 60ms per message in the scan.. are you sure it's disk,
> and not network latency at fault here?  Have you looked at packet
> traces of client/server conversations?  (60ms per message sounds
> suspiciously like you're getting stuck in request-response
> lockstep...)
> 
> 					- Bill
>