Missing mail

I have id'd 3 email contacts who do not receive my emails, ( they do show up in my sent mail), but I do not get a reject message. They are on different networks (optonline, mindspring and me.com) using both PCs and macs. If I send them an email from either my me.com address or my comcast.net address, from either my MAC or my IPAD it never arrives. If I send it from my Iphone using either address it works fine. That would imply a network issue, BUT, my husband's PC is on the same network and I can send from his computer on either my comcast address or his AOL address and THAT works fine. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I should go about fixing this issue. I just completely disconnected and reconnected my network and the same problem recurs. I'm worried that there may be others I'm unaware of as well. Thanks

Sorry -- "mail client" is any program that accesses mail from mail servers directly, such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Entourage Mail, etc. This is in contrast to when your mail provider allows access via your Browser, and the Web.
With a .mac or IMAP account, if you happen to access the account from a computer or mail client that defaults to treat the account as POP, then often the further default is to download the messages, and further instruct the server to remove them. In other words, the IMAP or .mac account gets treated as a POP, and the messages are removed following download. It would make no difference how you had the setting on your primary computer, or primary mail client (Mail) -- the settings for server behavior are in each mail client, whether aboard more than one computer or not -- and would also be true of POP account selection of actions following initial download.
Now if you have set your .mac account up to be POP, versus .mac, then your selections in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced could be to remove the messages following download, either immediately, or on some delayed schedule.
Thus, you see the reasons for my various questions.
More info, please.
Ernie
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5, iBook, and QS G4 867 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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