Tweaking Email
By tweaking your email, it will slightly speed up your retrieving and sending of email. First open Outlook Express and select Tools - Accounts, highlight your email account and select Properties - select the Server tab and write down what is in the two boxes for "incoming mail" (POP3) and "outgoing mail" (SMTP) i.e. "pop.xxx.yyy.zzz" and "smtp.aaa.bbb.ccc".
After you've done, close all of that and select Start - Run and type "cmd" (without the quotations) and press enter, type: tracert (whatever was in your box for "incoming mail") i.e. tracert pop.xxx.yyy.zzz. It will then say "Tracing route to ......" followed by a DNS number, it will look something like 68.54.2.13 - write exactly that number down. Do the same for your "outgoing mail" and write exactly the number down.
Now the next step is open up your email properties again as you did before, in the boxes for "incoming mail" (POP3) and "outgoing mail" (SMTP) put in the DNS numbers you wrote down for each. Finally, you've made it. This will keep your email from looking up the DNS number (cause it already knows it) everytime you send or check mail thus speeding it up a bit. Try it for better email speed.
