Hi Roger, OK sorry if I misunderstood. I think I have it straight now. If you send email to your girlfriend's address or to yourself it never shows in the Inbox. I know that you said that you are using POP3 email. What I forgot to ask is who is hosting the email or are you hosting your own email. I hate to make assumptions but judging by your email address I am going to guess that you are using Verizon's POP3 and SMTP servers and you are not hosting the email yourself. Does your girlfriend use Verizon's servers as well? Even if she does and both of your are on the same local area network (or even in the same room for that matter) I would hesitate to think that the problem is with your local area network. Here is why, when you compose a message and send it your email client (Outlook) will contact the SMTP server that you have entered into your account settings, such as outgoing.verizon.net; because that is the only thing it knows to do with the message. Verizon's SMTP server verifies your credentials (account and password) andaccepts it onto their servers which can be anywhere in the world. Once there your girlfriend's email client will connect to Verizon's POP3 email servers, which like I said can be anywhere. If her credentials check out Verizon's email servers, such as incoming.verizon.net, will allow her client to download the email. So as you can see, even though you may be sending an email only from your computer on one side of the room to her computer on the other the email must leave your local network and transnverse any number of connections. To verify that the problem is not with your local network you can try sending her an email from a web site out on the internet. One site that you can use to send her an email is www.mail2web.com If she doesn't get the mail then the problem is not with your local area network as I suspect. Now with that said, is the problem with her email, yours, or both. Does she have any issues receiving email from anyone else, or is just your address? Do you have any issues sending to anyone else, or is just her address? If you use another email address from your computer to send her an email does it get to her? Sometimes we make things much more complicated then need be. Don't overlook the obvious. Did she accidentally add your email address to a spam filter on her computer? Have you checked the junk mail filters and junk mail box in her Outlook for signs of your email? The other thing is to check it the other way, can you receive email from her? Frank
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Bachelder Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 4:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Network, emailing issue Frank, I'm using a pop3 server. You wrote, 2) If you are using POP3 the email gets downloaded from the POP3 server and is removed from the server by default. So if you compose an email to yourself on computer A then do a send/receive it will be uploaded to the SMTP server and then downloaded back from the POP3 server right back to computer A and then removed from the POP3 server. So if you log onto computer B the email will not be downloaded from the POP3 server because it has already been marked for deletion. To change this behavior, in the advanced tab of the "more settings" dialog of the properties of the email account there is a check box which can be checked which says "Leave a copy of messages on the server". The checkbox that says "Remove after emptying deleted items" box should also be checked. The effect of this is that when you compose and email on computer A and then do a send/receive the email will be uploaded to the SMTP server and downloaded from the POP3 server. However, because of the state of that check box the email will remain on the POP3 server and can be downloaded from the server when accessed on computer B. Frank, I don't think you understand. I'm not trying to get the same message on two different computers. The problem is when I send my girl , or Myself an email, it just does not show up in either one of our inboxes. And like I said in the original posting, if I go to my sent folder, it says that the email has been sent. I don't usually send myself emails. but when I found out that my girl has not received any emails from myself in a couple of days, and everyone else outside of my network has been receiving emails from Me, Well It was time to do what they call, A process of elimination. I needed to figure out weather My girls computer had a problem, or whether it was a network issue. It just made cense to Me. Thank you for the thoughts. Roger C Bachelder 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Ventura Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Network, emailing issue Although I honestly do not understand why folks like to email themselves I actually have been asked about how to do this on several occasions. The answer depends what form of email is being used. For example is it Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP4, or something else. Lets look at a few scenerios. 1) If you are using Microsoft Exchange this is a very simple operation and is handled for you by Outlook. Everytime Outlook validates your credentials against the Exchange server it will automatically (by default) update all of your folders on the local computer. So if you send yourself an email and that email has not been deleted from the Exchange server then that email will show up in your Inbox (or wherever you designate it be sent) regardless of what computer you log on from. If you are running Outlook in Cached mode then that email will stay on the local computer even after disconnecting from from the Exchange server. 2) If you are using POP3 the email gets downloaded from the POP3 server and is removed from the server by default. So if you compose an email to yourself on computer A then do a send/receive it will be uploaded to the SMTP server and then downloaded back from the POP3 server right back to computer A and then removed from the POP3 server. So if you log onto computer B the email will not be downloaded from the POP3 server because it has already been marked for deletion. To change this behavior, in the advanced tab of the "more settings" dialog of the properties of the email account there is a check box which can be checked which says "Leave a copy of messages on the server". The checkbox that says "Remove after emptying deleted items" box should also be checked. The effect of this is that when you compose and email on computer A and then do a send/receive the email will be uploaded to the SMTP server and downloaded from the POP3 server. However, because of the state of that check box the email will remain on the POP3 server and can be downloaded from the server when accessed on computer B. 3) If using IMAP4 emails really never leave the server and remain on the server until they are purged either manually or automatically. If an item is not marked as deleted it will not get purged and should be available from any computer that can access that email account. One word of caution here is that it is not recommended to have more then one computer logged onto an IMAP4 account at the same time because of the possibility of trying to access an email that has already been purged from another machine. I hope some of this helps but like I said I really don't see the necessity of emailing yourself over a network since it usually is easier to transfer information through the use of network shares. Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Bachelder Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Network, emailing issue Hello everyone, I've recently noticed that i have not been able to email from one computer to another on my network. I'm able to email on each computer out of the network, but when i go to email my self or my girls computer it doesn't work. And what is even weirder, i can go to my sent folder in outlook, and the email that i sent myself will be there, but i will never receive the message in my inbox. I'm running windows XP, Outlook 2003, and the free version of Avast. I also did the service pack 3 update. I'm really at a loss here. Can anyone suggest how to go about resolving this issue? 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