Able to receive mail but not send

Within the last week people have called me asking why they haven't received e-mails from me when - in fact - I've sent several. They can receive messages I send from Yahoo Mail & Hotmail.
The thing is - some people receive my messages and some don't! All these message appear as 'sent'. The recipients have not accidentally blocked me.
Any ideas? Would an archival reinstall from disk work? I know how to do that.

They can receive messages I send from Yahoo Mail & Hotmail.
Does this mean that you have another email account with somebody that isn't working well? Can you explain a little bit about how your email program does or doesn't use Yahoo or Hotmail?
Would an archival reinstall from disk work?
No, probably not, if the problem is with your settings in your mail program, your ISP, their ISP, then it's not the OS, which is what gets replaced during an "Archive and Install". Your user folder is not affected, which includes your email program settings.

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