Forsaken
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My main email is, but secondary emails are usually with Gmail.Doesn't anyone use their own server for email anymore?
My main email is, but secondary emails are usually with Gmail.Doesn't anyone use their own server for email anymore?
Pretty much everyone needs a gmail account these days, even if it's just used for adsense, analytics.My main email is, but secondary emails are usually with Gmail.
Look at the post above you.
Blah. My company forced Exchange on us. Our IT is outsourced and they bleed Microsoft. I miss Thunderbird.The GMail ads are way too intrusive for my liking. I'm sticking to my good old Exchange server + domain.
Thanks Paul.Poll updated.
But now I can't update my vote. Oh well. Much like the electoral college [US], my vote really doesn't count anyway.Poll updated.
Ooops...!But now I can't update my vote. Oh well. Much like the electoral college [US], my vote really doesn't count anyway.
Makes sense, I would say.I use my ISP server for personal email. Business domain server for CBI Web.
Not a fan of web based email. I never liked the thought of my mail being on someone else's server, therefore out of my control; no matter how secure, and no matter if they back it up every 2 minutes. I like my mail coming to me, where I know it is, and it gets backed up nightly onto an external drive.
Blah. My company forced Exchange on us. Our IT is outsourced and they bleed Microsoft. I miss Thunderbird.
Back on topic. I guess out of the 3, gmail.
Like any other IP traffic, emails are routed of course. However the SMTP protocol is "point to point", so emails are directly delivered to the MX (or backup MX if the primary happens to be unavailable) of the target domain.I'm not sure and I can actually be absolutely wrong about this...I can understand people not wanting to have their emails on someone else's server, but even with your own personal email server, does your email drop directly at your server? I mean, I thought that the very nature of email was that it is routed through atleast a couple of servers (ISP etc) before it lands into your inbox?
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