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Marks

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Feb 15, 2009, 9:56:11 AM2/15/09
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Recently all the emails I sent out but other parties not receiving at all,
any ideas would be great...Thanks in advance.

Marks


Richard in AZ

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Feb 15, 2009, 10:20:12 AM2/15/09
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"Marks" <e...@site.com> wrote in message news:49982d0b$1...@news.tm.net.my...

| Recently all the emails I sent out but other parties not receiving at all,
| any ideas would be great...Thanks in advance.
|
| Marks
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Not enough information to help you.
What email program do you use? Outlook Express? Outlook? Thunderbird? MSN? AOL? Yahoo?
Do the emails end up in a "Send items" folder?
Do you get any error messages?
Just exactly how do you know the other parties are not receiving them?

You used @site.com as part of your return address, this is not an Internet Service Provider!
Are you using a company mailing system? Have you talked to their technical support?


Bruce Hagen

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Feb 15, 2009, 10:46:56 AM2/15/09
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"Marks" <e...@site.com> wrote in message news:49982d0b$1...@news.tm.net.my...
> Recently all the emails I sent out but other parties not receiving at all,
> any ideas would be great...Thanks in advance.
>
> Marks


What happens if you send a message to yourself? Do you get it? Is it in Sent
Items? Any error messages? Who is your ISP/mail server?

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and
causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes
and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V
program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Note that for some AV programs, it may be necessary to uninstall the program
and reinstall in Custom Mode and uncheck e-mail scanning when the option
arises.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

VanguardLH

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Feb 15, 2009, 11:54:12 AM2/15/09
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Marks wrote:

If the message is moving from your Outbox folder to your Sent Items
folder then the mail server sent back an OK status telling your e-mail
client that it accepted the message. You have no control over the
message after the mail server takes it.

If you want to verify that an e-mail is getting sent by the *mail host*
then Bcc a copy to yourself. Do not send the copy to yourself (i.e., do
not send from an account to receive the copy back at the same account).
Send the Bcc copy to an account you have with a different e-mail
provider. For example, if you are sending out through Hotmail, send a
Bcc copy from your Hotmail account to, say, a Yahoo Mail account. If
you get your Bcc copy at the Yahoo Mail account then you know the
Hotmail server actually sent out your e-mail. Once you establish that
your mail server sent out your e-mail, you're done. You cannot do
anything about blacklists, spam filters, or rules at the recipients'
end.

Marks

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Feb 16, 2009, 5:51:11 AM2/16/09
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Thanks...problem caused by the anti virus e-mail scanning.


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Bruce Hagen

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Feb 16, 2009, 10:21:49 AM2/16/09
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You're welcome.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


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