When you are having trouble receiving or sending email, here are a few tips to help keep the mail flowing.
- Never assume the problem is on your end. If you were sending email perfectly a few hours earlier or even yesterday, DO NOT CHANGE ANY SETTINGS on your computer. Instead, shut the computer off and try again. If nothing still, shut off the computer and wait until the next day. When you have tried these two steps and still have a problem, then call your email provider to ask what may be happening.
- If you are receiving email, but are unable to send, check to make sure that your email didn’t get stuck in the Outbox. Sometimes we mistype an address and that will stall the email.
- If you use dial-up and get disconnected from the Internet every time you check email with Outlook Express, click Tools –> Options from the menus. Click the Connection tab and uncheck the box that says “hang up after sending and receiving.
- Attached pictures are too big when viewing/printing. Use this tip .
- You receive a Red X where a picture should be. Read our Red X tip here .
- Again for dial-up users especially, if you get the same email over and over, and no new ones come through, it usually means a ‘stuck’ email. This occurs when an email is too large to come through quickly and you disconnect before it finishes downloading the email. In this situation, learn to use your email service’s web mail function so you can view your email on the web based interface. Then delete any email that is more than 1000 kilobytes (1 megabyte). Or you can read the message via the web based interface.
We will continue to add to this tip as we think of common email woes.
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