Glad to hear that you’ve found an acceptable work-around.
With due respect, you have alleged some unexpected behaviors (possible bugs) in this thread that go significantly beyond “simply” failing to transmit email messages (which is the whole reason that this thread has been separated from the “Emails not being sent” thread). Perhaps we can chalk up those other observations to some one-off technical glitch, and/or to imperfect recall of the events that transpired.