Stanford students: What is up with email?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Hey guys, I am not a Stanford student but in the past I have frequently emailed a member of faculty who works there. I primarily used my Gmail account to communicate until all of a sudden my emails started not getting responses. I thought the faculty person was just busy, but later when I got an email address that worked (my college email) I asked the faculty member if they had gotten my emails in the past and mentioned some of the content that was in them, and they said no. I then reverted to using my college email up until September when I started not getting replies again. This is making me incredibly frustrated, because I am all out of emails that work with Stanford addresses. </p>

<p>I contacted the IT office of Stanford and they were completely unhelpful. They said their email was working fine and that they had no such thing as a whitelist that my email could be added to to avoid being filtered out.</p>

<p>I just want to know, Stanford students, have any people who have emailed your Stanford address outside of the Stanford network had this problem before, of not being able to reach you? I think an email has to send several emails to a Stanford address over the course of a few months before it ends up getting "blocked" somehow, like it has happened to me. I feel so alone in this, I don't know what to do.</p>

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<p>Something out of the ordinary went wrong with your email. I have no idea what it is. I email my son at his Stanford email address every day and I have no problem at all.</p>

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<p>What email provider do you use?</p>

<p>I have tried Gmail and Yahoo, and more than one institutional email.</p>

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<p>Stanford did have two network outages fairly recently - that may explain it.</p>

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<p>Also, I may add that the only way I was able to reach the IT office, a Stanford address, was because they had an online form you could submit. After that they send you a message to your inbox, but then when I reply to it directly from my email, in many cases I don’t get a response! I suspect it’s because they don’t receive it at all. So I doubt it’s because the professor is purposefully ignoring me, because the same thing is happening to two different Stanford emails used by different people.</p>