Managing Large quantities of email

[ltbaggz]

I am curious as to what is the best/most efficient way to manage emails in outlook. recently it has become very slow and tends to crash the computer. the emails date back to the 90's and must be kept for references. what is the best way to handle this much data? I currently have them split into many different pst files, and although it is running much faster, it is still sluggish when i start to run some other applications. THe amount of data that i need to mange with outlook is around 7-8gb. any help on how to handle this would be appreciated.

one more thing, all of this is stored on a local network drive.

thanks,

Drew

Edited April 12, 2007 by ltbaggz