Re: Why can't this XP machine send email to a particular Yahoo account?

"TomYoung" <tgyoung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d978b1d8-aa33-4ff8-8903-eb103b86db9d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Nov 23, 10:59 am, "Patrick Keenan" <t...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"TomYoung" <tgyo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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> Hi all:

> I've got a simple 2-machine home network, with the two machines
> connected to the Internet via a router. One machine runs Vista, > one
> runs XP.

> Up until a short time ago both machines could send email to a
> particular Yahoo account;

Are they sending from the same account or from different accounts?



> let's call it some...@xxxxxxxxxx A week or
> so ago it became apparent that the XP machine could no longer > send
> email to this particular account: the message would go into the
> Outbox and then settle into the Sent Items folder after > communicating
> with the email server, but the recipient would not receive the
> message. There was no local failure message, no "bounce" message > from
> the receiving server and the message didn't end up in the > recipient's
> spam bucket. The message just seemed to disappear into bit and > bite
> heaven.

> The Vista machine can still send messages to some...@xxxxxxxxxx

> The XP machine can still send messages to other Yahoo accounts: > a
> message to someone_e...@xxxxxxxxx shows up just fine. For some > reason
> messages sent to this one particular account - > some...@xxxxxxxxx - are
> failing silently.

> I've deleted the recipient's contact information in the XP > machine's
> Address Book and created the recipient's information from > scratch.
> Still doesn't work.

> Any ideas about what's going on here?

> TIA.

> Tom Young

you're sending to one destination from different machines, but the first
question should be if the sending machines are sending using different email
accounts. If they're using different accounts, perhaps one is blocked or
is being caught in spam traps.

HTH
-pk

The two machines *are* using different accounts. But I don't thing
the XP machine's account is being blocked: the message sent doesn't
end up in the recipient's Yahoo account "Bulk" folder (where Yahoo
directs spam) and a different Yahoo account *does* receive mail from
the XP machine. However, that gives me something to try since the
same accounts exist on both machines.

Thanks.


So these two hosts are NOT configured the same. Each host uses a different e-mail account. So what happens when you configure your Vista host to use the e-mail account that is normally used by your Windows XP host?

The problem isn't at your end. It is up at your sending mail server, options you have configured up on your mail server (like rules on outbound messages, if available), or that e-mails from that problematic account are getting rejected or blocked by the recipient's mail service (i.e., up at their mail server and not necessarily down in their local environment). It is possible the recipient's ISP is blocking your e-mails from the e-mail account you use with your Windows XP host because it was/is a known spam source. That means it will never show up in the recipient's Bulk folder (in their webmail account) and will never reach their local e-mail client. It got blocked upstream of the recipient's mailbox.

Without the headers in a received copy of your e-mail sent from your e-mail account that is normally associated with your Windows XP host, I can't tell if you are currently on a spam blacklist.

.

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