Hi Eleanor and Irene, Yes, you can send yourself an email from your address to your address. I am not sure why you aren't getting your emails Irene, are you sure you are sending them to the correct email address,?. I would doubt that if you are receiving emails such as this one I am sending you now and you receive it that you are sending to the correct email address. Paul. From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 27 July 2009 20:34 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: E-mails to myself Irene You cannot send yourself a test e-mail because it would be coming from you to yhou. Now maybe I am wrong and will then stand corrected. Your e-mail certainly reached the list as I am responding to it. Now if yhou have more than one e-mail address, you could try sending from one of your e-mail addresses to another one. I have 2 e-mail addresses eleanorburke1@xxxxxxxxxx and eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so I can send tests between these e-mail addresses. What exactly is your problem and maybe we can help out in that way? Like I say your e-mail to the list arrived OK. You could always send a Test e-mail to the list either and say something like Test Please Ignore and if it comes to you then you know things are working. Sorry if I am being repetative here. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Irene <mailto:breeze.whitney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: vip <mailto:vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 7:46 PM Subject: [vip_students] E-mails to myself Hi, I wonder if one of you can help with this query please. I sent myself a couple of test E-mails in Outlook Express and didn't receive them back. Then I got rid of a load of rubbish from the beginning of an item sent by a friend, copied the body of the item to the clipboard and then sent it to myself so I could forward it on to friends. Again it has not come back to me. I hope I have explained this okay but if not I will try again if it sounds double Dutch! Irene. _____ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.32/2266 - Release Date: 07/27/09 05:58:00 _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 84 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message. ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************