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Having just installed Outlook 2007 on another device using the same email providers, I can see that the real issue with Outlook 2007 onwards is the many seconds of delay the user suffers using POP3 connection. I have no idea what Outlook 2007 does whilst 'downloading' these files e.g. simply going to sleep? I gather from other web comments the cause is a MS bad re-write of the code after version 2003 and POP3 performance was not considered relevant?