(Resolved) Cannot send myself email from my TB

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MelsMZ
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Joined: January 18th, 2022, 11:52 pm

(Resolved) Cannot send myself email from my TB

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I am using TB as a shorthand for ThunderBird.

My TB email account is say xyz@verizon.net

This is an email account served by AOL, after Verizon sold its residential email buz to AOL. AOL forwards my emails to xyz@outlook.com

My outlook.com account uses xyz@outlook.com as its primary account alias, and xyz@verizon.net as its non-primary account alias. One can log in her MS outlook.com acct either via primary acct alias, in my case xyz@outlook.com; or via secondary alias, in my case xyz@verizon.net

My TB uses outlook.com's POP and SMTP servers to receive n send emails. Logon user id in POP n SMTP settings is xyz@verizon.net.

Now I can send myself emails via my xyz@verizon.net email from both AOL's webmail, and Outlook's https://outlook.live.com/mail/ interface. They both send them, they both receive them.

Sending myself email via xyz@verizon.net address in TB, puts a sent mail to my Sent TB folder. I do not receive them, in none of my email servers: AOL webmail, outlook.live.com, and TB.
Last edited by DanRaisch on January 19th, 2022, 10:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: "Resolved" added to subject per OP's post.
MelsMZ
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Joined: January 18th, 2022, 11:52 pm

Re: Cannot send myself email from my TB

Post by MelsMZ »

I discovered that this problem is caused by MS outlook.com email. It automatically junks all email sent to its secondary alias.
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