Can an e-mail get lost? My professor sent me one that i never got.?

Answer 1

Nope , emails can never 'get lost' , it might have been either 'prevented' by your settings or denied due to the mail quoto. Depends on the sender's mail settings also of how much time it ll keep tryin to enter your mailbox

Answer 2

Yes. E-mail is sent by sending a series of packets and those packets can get lost in the transfer and never make it to your e-mail provider. It's the sad truth, but normally, you get a message saying that something has happened and it is either being delayed or not sent. It is a rare occasion, but it happens, where the e-mail is just completely lost.

The e-mail may have also gotten tagged as spam and deleted before it even reached your inbox.

You also may have a firewall that stopped it.

There are many ways an e-mail can dissapear from the time it is sent, until the time you notice it is gone.

Answer 3

If the e-mail didn't reach you, it should be returned to the sender. It might take several days for it to be returned.

There are at least two potential exceptions:
1. If the sender sent it to an incorrect, but still valid, e-mail address, then someone else got the message that was intended for you, and the sender may never find out.
2. If you have a SPAM blocker that deletes SPAM automatically, it might have deleted the message. But this is unlikely if it was a personal message from your professor to you.

Answer 4

Yes email is routed by web server, sometimes the web server may not respond to the email and it can bounce back or get lost in the sending process. However the chances of this is rare.

Answer 5

Yes, there are a number of reasons that an email may not reach you but the most common is your spam or junk email setting or a firewall setting.

Answer 6

No. It could be deleted by your spam gaurd