"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Alan Jeffery" <observa@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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>> Nothing at all. I turned the network sniffer on to see if
>> there was traffic. There was.
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> What exactly did you see?
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>> But the message didn't leave my PC.
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> How do you know for sure?
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>> I can only conclude the POP3 server is "bouncing" the
>> message if you send it to yourself.
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> Not likely. I have never had problems sending emails to myself using any
> ISP I have ever had. Besides that, POP3 has nothing to do with sending
> messages. It is only for downloading them from the server after they have
> been delivered successfully. If a message bounces, you would receive it
> via POP3 (or IMAP, depending on your ISP settings), but the bounce itself
> is still handled at the SMTP level.
I attempted to send a message to myself using Outlook. It never left the
outbox.
Very strange. Never run into that before. I used to test connections by
emailing myself. Now it doesn't seem to work. At least with my ISP. I did
succeed in emailing a friend using Indy components. So it works.
Alan Jeffery
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> Gambit
