Copying And Pasting A Word Documernt Into Outlook Express.

[anotheoldgit]

On a number of occasions I have created a message on Word that I intend to later send by Outlook Express, having completed my message I copy it and then paste it in my email, I then address it, and send it, but it never reaches the recipient.

Can anyone please explain why this is so, and what happens to these undelived emails?

[Buenchico]

If you're not received a 'bounced mail' message, that strongly suggests that (for some unknown reason) the email service used by the intended recipient is treating it as spam. (It happens a lot. I once had to try lots of different ways of sending email to an American friend before finding one that his email service didn't simply delete. Then I found that the email service I was using wouldn't accept incoming mail from him!).

Get the intended recipient to log into his/her email account using web-based access. (i.e. NOT using an email client, such as Outlook Express). They'll probably find a folder labelled 'spam', 'junk' or similar that contains recent emails that you've tried to send to them. There should then be an option to mark them as 'not spam', so that the email filters will no longer hold back your mail.

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you for that Buenchico, but it is only when I send him one by conducting the copy and paste from Word method, if I send him one in a straight Outlook Express email, he receives them with no trouble.

[Graham-W]

Some servers also have a size limit for e-mails. Is the message you are importing from Word to Outlook a lot bigger than normal? You should still get a message if it's too large.

[anotheoldgit]

Thanks for your input Graham-W, no it still will not send it no matter how small it is.

[Buenchico]

The coding within your email might show that the text has been copied & pasted, which could explain why your mail is being treated as spam. (i.e. a spammer will create the text that he wants to put into lots of email and then manually, or far more likely, using software paste that text into those messages).

I still suggest asking the intended recipients to take a look (via webmail, not using an email client) at what is being filtered out from their mail.