Subject: Re: MAIL-I'M NEW AT THIS AND I'VE SENT SEVEN LETTERS SO FAR TO THE SAME PERSON. NOT ONE HAS GOTTEN THROUGH. I'M TOLD IT WILL TAKE BETWEEN 4 HOURS AND FIVE DAYS.WHAT AM I DOING WRONG. HOPE YOU CAN HELP.M

From: [email-masked] (Conrad Sabatier)
Date: 11 Jul 1996 23:17:53 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
William Gill <[email-masked]> wrote:

You're probably doing *nothing* wrong.  :-)

Sometimes one or more machines along the way will be down and your local
mail server will send you a message informing you that they were unable to
deliver your mail, but that they'll continue to try for some period of
time.

Relax.  Eventually it *should* get through.  :-)
-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads

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From: Hans Schleichert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 16:51:37 +0200

William:

First, don't include the whole message in the message Subject title.
Every Internet message consists of (at least) two parts - message header
and message body. The header is all that stuff that has the form
<keyword>: <some text>, like From:, To:, Subject:, etc. The header is
separated from the body by a blank line, or a line with some dashes, or,
with PINE, by a line with some dashes and the words 'Message Text.' The
message body starts below that line and should contain what you actually
want to say.

Maybe your messages got lost on their way because some computer couldn't
interpret that long Subject: line in the header.

Maybe you made some error in the recipient's e-mail address. While most
systems return e-mails which they cannot pass on, some don't and simply
swallow it. Did your friend ever send you an e-mail? If so, (while in the
message viewer) press R for reply, and type in something, and press Ctrl-X
(send) to mail the message this should, in most cases, work. If it
doesn't, there is a high likelihood that your friend has made an error in
setting up his/her e-mail.

Just to test - send me an e-mail. My account works well. My e-mail address
(also present in the messages's header) is
[email-masked]

Ah - one more thing. On the To: line, you may enter the person's name
along with his/her e-mail address. Enclose the name in "double quotes,"
and the e-mail address in <angle brackets> if you do that. This resolves
most of the trouble.

Hope this helps.
         -  Hans
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