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None-delivery of emails

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In the recent past for some reason various emails being sent to me are not being received. And various emails I send are not being received by the recipient. Sometimes I'm advised of this via a "bounce back" but some times not at all. What can I do about this?

In the recent past for some reason various emails being sent to me are not being received. And various emails I send are not being received by the recipient. Sometimes I'm advised of this via a "bounce back" but some times not at all. What can I do about this?

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You could start is offering facts about the process.

The vast majority of folk having issues sending and receiving "some" mail are those with custom / personal domains that are simply not configured correctly for the ever more stringent delivery requirement of providers like google.

Others are relying on the skills of some of the USA finest internet service providers that have been making a mess of email for as long as I have used email. Yet other folk have fancy email signatures that include images their recipient has identified as Spam related (usually downloaded blue Fs and little stylized Ts

Others include tracking information in their email which send the receivers privacy tools spare and they drop the email.

Really your question as stated is like the perennial "how long in a piece of string?"