if an email is not returned and not received then what can have happened to it?

Answer 1

how do you know it wasn't recived? are you sure you sent it to the correct address? did you misspell it?

if you are using outlook express, eudora, thunderbird or som other pop email client you can set up read receipts that let you know when some one has read your emails

★★ EMAIL READ RECEIPTS ★★

◙ You can set up Outlook email client to notify you when your outgoing messages are received.

◙ You can set up Outlook Express to display a receipt for e-mail you send. The receipt is sent when the message recipient has displayed your message. This is useful when you are sending time-critical information, or any time you want confirmation that your message has been received.
◙ To request a receipt for individual messages
A) In the new message window, on the Tools menu, click Request Read Receipt

◙ To request areceipt for all messages

A) On the Tools menu, click Options.
B) On the Receipts tab, select the Request a read receipt for all sent messages check box.

◙ Note: Message recipients can choose not to send read receipts, even when they are requested. If you do not want to send receipts, on the Tools menu, click Options. On the Receipts tab, select a Returning Read Receipts option.

Answer 2

Email server may have mis-interpreted the email address and passed it on to someone else.

Answer 3

It may still be queued somewhere and will eventually be delivered. Or a server somewhere might have decided (spam filters, IP address range blacklist etc) to just throw it away.

Answer 4

Gotten lost , just like USPS ;)
99% of the time It would come back to the sender, or the ISP can choose to drop such returned mails on their mailserver itself.

Answer 5

You may have inadvertable sent it to the wrong person , check your sent items file and see if the address is to whom you wanted it to go to

Answer 6

It went to the junk-box, if you got the e-mail adress correct.

Answer 7

the ghost in the computer has lost it???? woooooooooooohhhh, halloweens come early

Answer 8

the lawnmower man ate it

or

it's on your outbox

Answer 9

Lost in cyber-space...

Answer 10

its been taken to never land dmn you peter pan hope that hook gets you for this