Re: not receiving emails

From: N. Miller (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/20/04


Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:24:57 -0700

In article <D0B37D27-6106-4551-9637-8860601B0564@microsoft.com>, =?Utf-8?B?
bm9tYWlsZGVsaXZlcmVk?= says...

> i have noticed that i do not receive all of my emails. One have mentioned
> that when he had sent me the email, that it bounced back to him and the
> email he had sent to me was undeliverable. I also have not been receiving
> other emails from reputable company sites. I have checked with my isp and
> they told me to send them(people/companies) an email in order to help
> resolve this issue, however, I do not feel that this is the case. I had
> even removed all blocked emails/cleared cookies from my list to see if
> this would even resolve the issue of not receiving my email, and still I
> do not get "very important emails" delivered to me. Please help.

If the mail isn't reaching your mailbox, nothing you do on your computer,
clearing cookies, or clearing the Blocked Sender list, will help. Something
is keeping the email from reaching your servers.

What is the capacity of your mailbox? Are you getting numerous viral
messages that have to be cleaned up? Does your ISP offer user configured
spam filtering? If so, how did you set it up? None of these issues can be
fixed by changing any settings in MSOE; you just have to sort out what might
be the cause. If you have a Hotmail account (or other free web mail
account), have the friend whose message bounced send a message there, then
check his source IP address against blocking lists; depending upon how he
sent the email, he might be blocked by your ISP. As an example, I can run my
MTA in "end-to-end" mode; but if I do that, I can't send email to AOL users
because AOL refuses to accept email from dynamic IP addresses. I have to use
a relaying client and send my email through my ISP's mail servers to get
through to AOL users.

-- 
Norman
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~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
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