A few months back, we had a somewhat similar problem where our production box's performance paled in comparison to our development box for a particular stored procedure. We manually...

Thank you both for your help. Problem solved! It was the POP3 server.

I really appreciate it.

Rob

Thanks for your suggestion...

I am using Microsoft Outlook. When the mail got stuck, I went into Outlook and saw the messages--not in the outbox, not in the sent items...