Strange, frustrating Mail problem!

anonemouse

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Please, please help...

I'm having a very strange, very frustrating problem that I believe comes down to the Mail application on my Mac. I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.4) and using three email accounts I access through Mail via POP, and have done so without a hitch for years.

Recently, friends and colleagues alerted me to the fact they have not been receiving emails I've sent. Emails that appear in my Sent box. It seems that some people have received ALL emails I've sent them, some people have received SOME but not ALL emails I've sent, and other people have received NONE of the emails I've sent them in the past couple of months (this I only discovered a few days ago, much to my dismay).

I can see no pattern to which emails have and have not been received. It appears to be occurring across the three separate accounts, and with different outgoing mail servers. This is what leads me to believe the problem lies with Mail, and not the servers themselves, though I may be wrong. I cannot tell which emails have not been received, and can no longer trust that emails I send will end up at their intended destination.

I cannot find any information on this kind of problem. Please help me. I'm desperate, and at a complete loss!!

Edit: As far as I know, this is solely a problem with outgoing mail. I don't know of any emails I myself have failed to receive.
 
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This is easy to check. Send an email to one or more of your webmail accounts.

That said, there can be any number of reasons why your email is not going through to certain selected recipients. It sounds like your accounts are being flagged as SPAM or junk mail by some of your recipients' ISPs.
 
On your Mac's Mail program click on the Mail menu item 'Window' And open 'Connection Doctor'. When Connection Doctor opens up the first thing is to click the "Show Details" button before you select the "Check Again" button to see the details of the connections live.
 
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