E-mail gets lost, no bounceback, nothing.

[Sal]

When I use Outlook Express to send an e-mail to a Yahoo mail account
it never arrives, and I never even receive a "failure to deliver"
message. It just gets lost. I can, however, send e-mail to a Gmail
account. This is the strangest thing. Are there any settings in OE
that I should look at? I can't understand why the same e-mail can be
sent to Gmail successfully and just gets lost when sent to Yahoo mail.

SMTP: mail.cyberonic.com
IP address of server: 4.17.179.4
Port: 25
No server authentication

 

[Sal]

Well, I'm not sure which version of OE you are using, but you have to
configure OE for Yahoo Mail. to do this:

Go to Tools, Accounts, Choose Mail tab. Click Add. Then click Mail. You
will see a 'Display Name' text box. type your name and choose Next. In
the email address field type your yahoo email address, i.e.:
yourname******.com; click next.

Under your 'incoming mail server' make sure POP3 is selected. then type
pop.mail.yahoo.com; next field type smtp.mail.yahoo.com in 'Outgoing'
mail. then click next.

Under the account name box type in your yahoo email id and the password
that you use to get into yahoo. You can also have OE remember your
password by checking the "remember pasword" field. Leave the "Log on
using..." blank. Click Next and Finish.

Also, remember that The Yahoo Mail server now needs authentication.
Turn the feature on by going into accounts from the tools menu,
selecting the mail tab, dbl-clicking pop.mail.yahoo.com, select the
servers tab, check the box next to My Server Requires Authentication,
and click OK.

To control auto-deletion from Yahoo, go to accounts from the tools
menu. Select mail tab again, dbl-clicking on the pop.mail.yahoo.com and
go to advanced tab then checkmark "leave a copy at server"

In addition, you may need to use port 587 when sending email to yahoo
if port 25 is blocked by your Internet Service Provider. These are the
steps:

Tools> Accounts> Yahoo account> Properties> Advanced tab> Change port
on Outgoing Server (SMTP) to 587 from 25 to open for port-forwarding of
messages. Click apply and then close. I would also recommend closing out
of the application and going back in. If it still doesn't work, try a
cold boot, leave off for 10 seconds and then go back into application.
but it shouldn't be a problem. let me know if this corrects it or not.

I don't want yahoo to be my POP3 and SMTP servers. I want to use my
ISP's mail server. I shouldn't have to configure a special account
just to send an e-mail. Why don't I have to do this for Google? Port
25 is not blocked, otherwise I wouldn't be able to send e-mail to a
Gmail account.

 

[Daave]

When I use Outlook Express to send an e-mail to a Yahoo mail account
it never arrives, and I never even receive a "failure to deliver"
message. It just gets lost. I can, however, send e-mail to a Gmail
account. This is the strangest thing. Are there any settings in OE
that I should look at? I can't understand why the same e-mail can be
sent to Gmail successfully and just gets lost when sent to Yahoo mail.

SMTP: mail.cyberonic.com
IP address of server: 4.17.179.4
Port: 25
No server authentication

Sounds like it might be incorrectly seen as spam. Ask the recipient to
check his/her Bulk Messages folder.

 

[Sal]

Sounds like it might be incorrectly seen as spam. Ask the recipient to
check his/her Bulk Messages folder.

certified2fix: thank you for taking the time and effort to help me
solve this problem, however...
sometimes the simplest solutions are overlooked. This last suggestion
was right-on, and I'm embarassed not of thought of it myself. Thanks
again to both of you.

 

[PA Bear]

If a copy of the sent message ends up in Deleted Items folder (assuming you
have this option enabled), the problem's not on your end.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

 

[Daave]

certified2fix: thank you for taking the time and effort to help me
solve this problem, however...
sometimes the simplest solutions are overlooked. This last suggestion
was right-on, and I'm embarassed not of thought of it myself. Thanks
again to both of you.

Glad it's all sorted out!