How Much Of Your Email Goes Undelivered

[Trevor]

I mostly use Yahoo's mail service, and occasionally Gmail's and Hotmail's.

I'm not talking about email where you get a clear reply saying the recipient's address is unrecognised. But you send and the recipient never gets it; no error messages or apparent bad connections. This happens to me with Yahoo 1% - 2% of all emails sent.

What is your experience and favourite email service?

[Guest Reimar]

Some private Mail-Server set to recognize mail from Yahoo, Hotmail and some other services as spam and to deleted them instantly without notification to the sender.

The use of an E-Mail Client which has a built-in reading notifier like The Bat or other or a program like Mail Info, gives you the ability to get known if your mail was read already, or like Mail-Info that the the Mail was opened by the receiver even if he decline the the automated answer.

Cheers.

[Veazer]

I send mail from my own domain, a budget hosting company, and gmail. Both have been very reliable for me. I had one period of time where a spammer snuck onto the same server as my domain and my domain was briefly blacklisted on the spam lists but it was resolved pretty quickly.

Hotmail is by far the worst for this, check out this guy's testing.

[freitag1]

If you use an email client or a private smtp just register a gmail account and use the gmail smtp.

[HDRIDER]

Hi

I know for sure that some companies will not open hotmail or some other free mails.

when i moved to Asia i send some mails around, never got an answer, then called them, they told me they would never open an hotmail, so i bought my own, no problem anymore.

[Wolfie]

never had an issue with gmail since i started using it a few years back...

[Veazer]

Hi

I know for sure that some companies will not open hotmail or some other free mails.

when i moved to Asia i send some mails around, never got an answer, then called them, they told me they would never open an hotmail, so i bought my own, no problem anymore.

Why exactly? I'd love to hear the logic beyond that decision.

[Guest Reimar]

Hi

I know for sure that some companies will not open hotmail or some other free mails.

when i moved to Asia i send some mails around, never got an answer, then called them, they told me they would never open an hotmail, so i bought my own, no problem anymore.

Why exactly? I'd love to hear the logic beyond that decision.

A lot of Spam and Scam and other bu**sh*t includes Spy's, Trojans and so on. The most unsecure E-Mail System around the World! and even while sending mail via Hormail the infos from your computer to MS! Same happens for MS-Messenger as well!

Run Hook Explorer and you can find out maybe some more!

That's why!

Cheers.

[nikster]

Never had this problem on Gmail.

However, as HDRIDER pointed out, I assume this has more to do with the recipient than your mail service. Especially large corporations install all kinds of idiotic spam filtering systems and some of these willfully delete legitimate email. Poorly working enterprise software is to blame.

I have one corporate account and I am continually surprised about how bad the spam detection really is. On this corporate system, I get 2 - 3 spam messages every day, and from time to time a virus slips through too - and that despite the fact that I keep my corporate email address extremely private, never post it on boards, never use it for signing up for anything, etc.

On Gmail, I never see a single spam message yet I give out my gmail address anywhere on the web that asks for an email address.

[Veazer]

A lot of Spam and Scam and other bu**sh*t includes Spy's, Trojans and so on. The most unsecure E-Mail System around the World!

That's a bit of an exaggeration, don't you think? I think hotmail sucks personally, but they have a significant amount of anti-virus, spoofing & malware protection. Trend Micro has been handling anti-virus protection for MS for years. Sure, it's far from perfect but the average small web domain out there is running sendmail or something similar with little or no scanning or protection, why would you feel more secure receiving a message from an unknown domain? It's poor logic to think that a message from [email protected] is somehow safer than a message [email protected].

and even while sending mail via Hormail the infos from your computer to MS! Same happens for MS-Messenger as well!

Run Hook Explorer and you can find out maybe some more!

He's was talking about receiving email from hotmail users, and i don't know what you mean by 'sending mail via Hormail the infos from your computer to MS'.

[Veazer]

Never had this problem on Gmail.

However, as HDRIDER pointed out, I assume this has more to do with the recipient than your mail service. Especially large corporations install all kinds of idiotic spam filtering systems and some of these willfully delete legitimate email. Poorly working enterprise software is to blame.

I have one corporate account and I am continually surprised about how bad the spam detection really is. On this corporate system, I get 2 - 3 spam messages every day, and from time to time a virus slips through too - and that despite the fact that I keep my corporate email address extremely private, never post it on boards, never use it for signing up for anything, etc.

On Gmail, I never see a single spam message yet I give out my gmail address anywhere on the web that asks for an email address.

I agree that the spam filtering is very good, but should you ever notice the spam box starting to fill rapidly you might try using these tricks help to find out who is giving out your email.

Instant Disposable gMail Addresses

More Gmail address tricks

[Guest Reimar]

He's was talking about receiving email from hotmail users, and i don't know what you mean by 'sending mail via Hormail the infos from your computer to MS'.

Even if downloading e-mail, you're connected to an other system and sending data to them. Just test it out by yourself if you don't believe me, which you don't need to be!

Cheers.

[HDRIDER]

Hi

I have a gmail as well, never any problems with that, and its a lot better than hotmail