Hi folks
I use Outlook Express on my home PC and enabled mail logging when I first started using it.
Over the last couple of months Outlook Express has been taking longer and longer to display the first message I choose to open. My mail store is located on a second HD and currently consumes 1.45GB of space.
I run Diskeeper 10 and automate the defragmentation process on all my drives – analysing the drive containing the email data shows no fragmented files, so the delay in opening the files is not due to fragmentation.
Today I was running a manual primary defragmentation job on my system drive and noticed that it was moving a file called pop3.log. The size of this file was reported as being a staggering 1.2GB!
Doing a little research I have discovered that it is supposed to be good practice to delete large pop3 and smtp log files as if they get too large they can degrade the performance of Outlook Express.
So – my question is this: can I safely delete the pop3.log file? I assume I can, but not being a pop3 afficionado, I wanted to check first 🙂 Also, will deleting the file help to improve the performance of Outlook Express?
Thanks