An e mail question

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:24 pm

A friend of mine suddenly stopped receiving my e mails about 3 days ago. They're not bouncing back and don't appear to be in her junk mail. I'm still receiving stuff from her though. Any ideas what's happened to them ?.

Remember, I'm as technical as a blancmange, so answers in words not exceeding 2 syllables if possible

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:29 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: A friend of mine suddenly stopped receiving my e mails about 3 days ago. They're not bouncing back and don't appear to be in her junk mail. I'm still receiving stuff from her though. Any ideas what's happened to them ?.

Remember, I'm as technical as a blancmange, so answers in words not exceeding 2 syllables if possible

In a nutshell...

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:31 pm

perhaps they are going to your friends "junk mail" in error.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:40 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: A friend of mine suddenly stopped receiving my e mails about 3 days ago. They're not bouncing back and don't appear to be in her junk mail. I'm still receiving stuff from her though. Any ideas what's happened to them ?.

Remember, I'm as technical as a blancmange, so answers in words not exceeding 2 syllables if possible

Double check the email address you are using for your friend. She is not receiving and you are not getting it back because the email is actually going to a person with the mistyped email address. This just happened to me last week. I left out an i in the email address and it went to another person with the same email address, but missing the i.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:42 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: A friend of mine suddenly stopped receiving my e mails about 3 days ago. They're not bouncing back and don't appear to be in her junk mail. I'm still receiving stuff from her though. Any ideas what's happened to them ?.

Remember, I'm as technical as a blancmange, so answers in words not exceeding 2 syllables if possible

If they weren't arriving at your friend's POP server (handles email messages at the receive end), then you would get an email notification of this. Has your friend installed a new spam filter. Or perhaps they are using an ISP that has set up a new spam filter service.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:51 pm

Lon wrote: Double check the email address you are using for your friend. She is not receiving and you are not getting it back because the email is actually going to a person with the mistyped email address. This just happened to me last week. I left out an i in the email address and it went to another person with the same email address, but missing the i.
I launched the mail from my address book and I did check that but it's correct.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:54 pm

OpenMind wrote: If they weren't arriving at your friend's POP server (handles email messages at the receive end), then you would get an email notification of this. Has your friend installed a new spam filter. Or perhaps they are using an ISP that has set up a new spam filter service.
She's checked her spam filter and said it's ok, but I think she's as "technical" as me.

I forwarded a few of the e mails to work to send from there. One of them, the first one not to be received, didn't make it to my work computer. Technology eh?

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:02 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: I suspect some sort of space/time displacement that would effect the data stream through the ethernet.

I don't even know whether or not to believe that. THAT'S how technical I am

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:03 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: She's checked her spam filter and said it's ok, but I think she's as "technical" as me.

I forwarded a few of the e mails to work to send from there. One of them, the first one not to be received, didn't make it to my work computer. Technology eh?

It might be worth checking that the emails have moved from your 'outbox' to your 'sent items' folder. If they are still in the 'Outbox', then they haven't been sent yet.

The only other thing that I can think of is that your software might be corrupting the header on the packets. The easiest way round this is to re-install your email client.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:10 pm

UncleKram, sounds like your email program on your end isn't sending them, check your outbox and sentbox, and your spam folder and lower your security on you antivirus where it filters emails. If you have run any updates lately for any software it can play hell with your settings.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:13 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: She's checked her spam filter and said it's ok, but I think she's as "technical" as me.

I forwarded a few of the e mails to work to send from there. One of them, the first one not to be received, didn't make it to my work computer. Technology eh?

That sounds like a problem at your end. Either the message is being mis-formed by your software, it's not being sent or it's being blocked by your firewall.

Does mail get out to anyone else?

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:16 pm

i had an email from Kram today, no problem. (can i say that?)

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:18 pm

Bryn Mawr wrote: That sounds like a problem at your end. Either the message is being mis-formed by your software, it's not being sent or it's being blocked by your firewall.

Does mail get out to anyone else?

I've sent test mails to other people that were ok. I haven't messed with any settings or anything like that.

I deleted her address and added it again about 10mins ago, but havent had a reply yet

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:19 pm

lady cop wrote: i had an email from Kram today, no problem. (can i say that?)

Sure - I'm always "helping the police with their enquiries"

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:21 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: Sure - I'm always "helping the police with their enquiries" :Dshhhhhhhhhhhh MI5 is listening.

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:35 pm

I just recently had a major problem with this. The issue lasted over 14 days. My server was blocking the e mail from forum garden. The issue is resolved... but now I am drowning in junk e mail and they are referring to me as Weeder. So I give up. I just dont get it...

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:02 am

Does she have Yahoo? I had a problem like this a while back. I wasn't getting email from LC, but ONLY from LC. One of them actually took 4 days to arrive, some didn't get here at all. It was all Yahoo's fault, too. Bastards. Evil, conniving, deranged Yahoo....

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:57 am

lady cop wrote: i had an email from Kram today, no problem. (can i say that?)

This now suggests that there is something wrong with your friend's POP server.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:53 pm

She is now under an avalanche of Krammy e mails and normal service has been resumed. I do love a happy ending. Thanks folks

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:01 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: She is now under an avalanche of Krammy e mails and normal service has been resumed. I do love a happy ending. Thanks folks

Good on yer Kram. Keep 'em streamin'.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:02 pm

OpenMind wrote: Good on yer Kram. Keep 'em streamin'.
cheers OM