People are not receiving my emails (server, settings, folder, Verizon)

[heeha]

I use Yahoo for email and there have been several occassions where I will send an email but the recipient does not receive it.

Does anyone know what might cause this? This has happened four times within the past two months. It is really starting to tick me off. I heard Yahoo is not a good email service. Is that correct?

When someone tells me they never received my email, I will always go to my sent folder and it will show the email as being sent. I will also double check the actual email address to make sure I am sending it to the right email address.

[Bo]

Have them check whether your email is being routed into their spam folder. Some email services put all of the email that comes from a site into the spam category. Free providers like Yahoo are susceptible to this because spammers use those accounts to send out their inbox pollution.

[NHDave]

Common issue, had the same problems in the very brief time I used it a while back.

[Willsson]

Any email that does not go somewhere will be returned to the sender. It may take a few days and hop around multiple mail servers, being denied at each, but will ultimately return to the sender if not delivered to exactly the email address to which it was sent.

Verify your sending address. And as stated above, the recipient may need to check spam settings. If the recipient is using some specialized mail filter, the email may be caught and dumped before being delivered to his email box.

[mawipafl]

I agree with the above replies, that I'll bet your email either landed in the recipient's spam box OR never even got that far and was received by the provider but sent into the netherworld (which is why the email shows as being sent and you didn't receive a mailer daemon).

I have an aol account with an odd email name that some automatron mail sorters see as junk mail -- there was a time when my other half's company and a friend's school district mail systems blocked my email, and neither I nor they even knew. They both had issues with aol, yahoo, and hotmail emails being filtered out and not even going into their spam folders.

So, in your case, it's not necessarily yahoo's fault at all - it's the recipient's provider and its mail filter.

[Bo]

Originally Posted by tofurkey

Any email that does not go somewhere will be returned to the sender. It may take a few days and hop around multiple mail servers, being denied at each, but will ultimately return to the sender if not delivered to exactly the email address to which it was sent.

That was true 10 years ago, but not anymore. The more common setting for email servers these days is to send mail that appears to be spam into a "black hole," meaning deleting it, rather than returning it to the sender. This helps prevent spam from address spoofers from being sent back onto the Internet to be bounced to its destination.

[JBrown]

Very recently Comcast changed something about there outgoing email handling. Myself and a number of others I know started having problems. I had friends you were using outlook on a Comcast internet provider and swore they had emailed me..but I never got anything.other. What ever Comcast did makes other providers (Verizon 4 example) treat it as spam/

So in order to get email from these people I had to go into the options /settings things and direct that "spam" not be directly sent to the trash folder but rather that it go into the spam / junk folder and stay there until I specifically delete it. Once I did that I saw that Emails arriving from these ppl was in fact arriving but at least not immediately being deleted. I tried marking some of those as "Not Spam" but that accomplished nothing.
I then went to the "accept email form thing and entered the full address of those who were having trouble sending and entered their entire address and set the option such that even if the system thought it was spam for those specific addresses ...send it to me anyway.

As I said...I know a number of ppl that have in the last two months or so experienced this problem.

[Peregrine]

Agree it isn't your fault or Yahoos.