Windows Mail not being sent

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Rob and Marcia Smith

About 5% of our email messages are not being received by their intended
recipients. We can not correlate it to any specific situation (size,
attachments, etc.). We are running Vista Home Premium.

Is anyone else having this type of problem? Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Rob and Marcia Smith said:
About 5% of our email messages are not being received by their intended
recipients. We can not correlate it to any specific situation (size,
attachments, etc.). We are running Vista Home Premium.

Is anyone else having this type of problem? Any suggestions?

Thanks
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Are some intended recipients affected more often than others?
 
Email has never guaranteed 100% delivery. It is a 'best effort' deal.
Most of the time, you will get a non-delivery report that gives
the reason for non-delivery.
In a few instances, it disappears into a 'black hole' because the
recipient's mail server thinks you are a spammer.
 
I understand ... though it seems suspicious that we've never had this
problem until very recently .... when we started using Windows Mail on Vista
Home Premium ... and we're still using the same ISP.

We have not been able to correlate the problem to any particular recipient
or other factor.

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Rob and Marcia Smith said:
I understand ... though it seems suspicious that we've never had this
problem until very recently .... when we started using Windows Mail on
Vista Home Premium ... and we're still using the same ISP.

We have not been able to correlate the problem to any particular recipient
or other factor.
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If course another possibility with some of us is mail getting lost in with
all the spam being deleted.
And yes, I know why I get so much spam.
 
There is nothing particularly unique about Windows Mail.
It uses the same generic POP3/SMTP protocols as all the
other desktop mail clients.
There are a lot of other factors over which the average user
has no control.
 
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