Problem with outlook email

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For over 30 years, I have always had a very poor experience with Outlook, so it will be hard to make me ever like it. I am seeing if my Pierpont Outlook email works at all and send emails to myself and nothing arrives anywhere but there are zero mailing errors either. Do Outlook emails normally take an hour? A day to arrive? Or does one have to send 20 Outlook emails and hope 1 arrives to its destination?
Am I just very unlucky the product never works?

Or is this a problem for everyone and everyone is used to sending 20 emails everywhere and hope for the best?