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non-delivery of email

Author:

David Mackinder

Date:

Saturday, 17th Nov 2001 14:28

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could anyone shed any light on the following problem, please? I have a friend who uses AOL on his home computer (a Macintosh). Whenever I send him email to this address it never seems to reach him. I am absolutely sure I have the correct email address (sometimes, for example, I've used 'reply' when responding to messages I've received from him -- so communication is certainly possible in one direction). I have never received any notification that messages are 'bouncing'. This seems to apply to all messages I send to him: plain text, text with HTML, text with attachments.

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	non-delivery of email
	could anyone shed any light on the following problem, please? I have a friend who uses AOL on his home ...

David Mackinder

17/11/01 14:28

14050

	Re: non-delivery of email
	Dave, to remove some doubts I have, try sending from a different address, NOT "bigfoot." Some ISPs will block ...

Edward W. Stollery II

20/11/01 02:58

14101

	Re: non-delivery of email - in defence of Bigfoot
	Ed In fairness to Bigfoot, perhaps it's worth pointing out that: * It is a reputable and long-established (in Net years) company. * ...

John Gillard

21/11/01 21:41

14182

	Re: non-delivery of email - in defence of Bigfoot
	In defence of all, or almost all, mail services, what you say can be said of them all -- or ...

Edward W. Stollery II

22/11/01 03:51

14189

	Re: non-delivery of email - in defence of Bigfoot
	Edward W. Stollery II wrote: > I've not tracked senders, per se -- I'm not set up to track > their addresses. ...

Carol Andrus

24/11/01 19:54

14263

	Re: non-delivery of email - in defence of Bigfoot
	Carol, taking this forward; a) does FORWARDING OF EMAIL erase original sources? b) would http://www.spamcop.net/ be a ...

Edward W. Stollery II

25/11/01 02:23

14266

	Re: non-delivery of email - in defence of Bigfoot
	Edward W. Stollery II wrote: > Carol, taking this forward; > a) does FORWARDING OF EMAIL erase original sources? > ...

Carol Andrus

26/11/01 18:08

14293

	Re: non-delivery of email - in defence of Bigfoot
	Carol, thank you very much. Your information helps me, and of course every other caroing member of the Free ...

Edward W. Stollery II

27/11/01 03:40

14300

	Re: non-delivery of email
	Missing mail? While I haven't run into this with AOL specifically, I have run into it with other ISPs from time ...

Carol Andrus

19/11/01 20:41

14096

	Re: non-delivery of email
	OK last and final bid.. if your contact is really not computer-lit, and relies possibly on an always-on connection ...

Stuart Cliffe

18/11/01 00:16

14055

	Re: non-delivery of email
	it's not a foul slander; but I'll have to be diplomatic. It would certainly make sense of what's been going ...

David Mackinder

18/11/01 00:32

14056

	Re: non-delivery of email
	Hi David You're obviously not having problems sending mails here, although I have heard of emails sometimes going astray when ...

Stuart Cliffe

17/11/01 20:30

14053

	Re: non-delivery of email
	thanks again. I'll try using a different client (probably Eudora and/or Pegasus) and a different ISP too. My gut feeling ...

David Mackinder

17/11/01 22:57

14054

	Re: non-delivery of email
	Hi David When you send an email you are sending it to a 'pigeonhole', not to a specific computer, ...

Stuart Cliffe

17/11/01 15:49

14051

	Re: non-delivery of email
	I have experienced problems with AOL users in the US too! Originally, from my Virgin.Net address I could not ...

Dileep Damle

22/11/01 10:45

14197

	Re: non-delivery of email
	thanks, Stuart, for taking the time to deal with this. I have no problems sending to other mail addresses (barring ...

David Mackinder

17/11/01 19:11

14052

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