Weird. Outlook "sends" a message, but it never gets sent.

[Guest]

Can anyone help with this.

I have a roadrunner pop email account. Up until three months ago, I had no
problems sending and receiving through Outlook. A while ago, I started being
unable to send while staying with family. My brother uses DSL and I suspected
that the RR smtp server was being blocked. So I changed the smtp server in
the settings to his DSL smtp server. Outlook started sending the messages. It
placed them in the sent items folder. But I found out that the messages never
went anywhere. They just disappear. What did I do wrong? Am I unable to send
through another SMTP and if so, what can I do? And why does Outlook think
they went?

 

[Remove ABCD from Email address to reply]

I assume that you changed the server but you continued to use your prior
email address which was not recognized by the ISP. I would have thought
that the ISP would have given you an error message and not put the email in
the sent folder.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

ISP don't put them in the sent folder, outlook does. many isp's accept and
discard messages because it's too much server load if its a spammer is
trying to use the smtp.