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If you use a third party email service for newsletters, you may not receive an email if the email is to yourself. The reason for this is the system sees that as "spoofing" or typically a spam technique. It is a catch 22 where if you are sending on behalf of you and are not authenticated on our systems by the newsletter service, you are essentially doing a spam technique that most spammers do too. Newsletters tend to allow you to send "as you" but that comes at a great risk where your newsletter will probably be blocked by many people anyway. So don't spoof. See if the provider can send with authentication or send as their domain instead. It is not wise to send as you by some outside mail provider because people now a days hate spam so you are going to be blocked 99% of the time anyway.
This goes for any newsletter service from mailchimp to constantcontact. Ask your newsletter provider for any SMTP or SMTP authentication methods to send your email - most likely you will have to pay them to do that. But it is going to allow you to reach all your newsletter readers without it ending up in spam or worst yet, you won't see your readers get anything as time goes by.
Just like web forms, you have to authenticate with a user and password, otherwise forget it... it is not Parcom doing this, but the entire Internet...so if you hate spam, so do others. Make sense?
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