"Peter Nolan" wrote in message
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I am using outlook xp on win xp dell laptop...

When I sent emails out I am occasionally seeing 'sending 0 of n'
emails.

This usually only occurs when sending acknowledgements for emails
and
in these cases there are no acknowledgments......
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I never send (automatically or via prompt) any read receipts so this
is a just a guess that Outlook doesn't count read receipts since YOU
didn't compose them. I wasn't aware that Outlook even gave you any
notification that it was sending a read receipt.

Do you have Outlook configured to automatically send read receipts
(when any senders requests them)? One of the first configuration
changes or checks you should do after installing Outlook is to ensure
that you neither automatically send read receipts or even bother with
the prompts for them. Set Outlook to *never* send read receipts.