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In message , David E. Ross
writes: On 10/9/2018 2:13 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] If your ISP will let you _send_ emails with a From: that has nothing to do with that ISP, then indeed you don't need an _outgoing_ mail server. You still need an _incoming_ one (though many domain-registering companies will provide that, often with autoforwarding too). Your ISP cannot, I think, provide that unless they're also handling your domain registration, as _incoming_ mail won't come anywhere near them. I disagree. My Internet connection is through Spectrum, which also provides cable TV service in my community. When it was Time Warner Cable before the merger, they insisted I use their domain in my E-mail address. For that For _outgoing_ emails. And incoming ones if you wanted those emails to come via them. reason, I subscribed to E-mail and Web hosting from Sunset.net at http://sunset.net/index.html, which does not impose such a limitation. (I do still have such an E-mail address with a roadrunner.com domain, which I only use as a backup for sending messages on the rare occasion when Sunset.net goes down.) For _incoming_ emails, what is the format of your address - does it end in @yourdomain.*? If so, it must come via Sunset. Not your ISP (Spectrum). If someone emails @yourdomian, "the internet" does not know to send it to Spectrum. So you are using the _incoming_ email server (POP or IMAP) at Sunset. For outgoing (SMTP), you could be using a server at either, assuming Spectrum have one and allow you to use a non-Spectrum From: address. When the original registry for my domain decided to concentrate on Web development and stopped being a registry, I started using Omnis Network at http://www.omnis.com/, which I still use for my annual domain renewal. Thus, I have one ISP for a broadband connection to the Internet and an unrelated ISP for hosting my E-mail and Web site. I also have a third unrelated company for registering my domain. I noticed that I might save some money by using Omnis Network in place of Sunset.net for hosting my E-mail and Web site. I might explore that. Yes, many registrars (I think most) offer email and web hosting, often thrown in with the registration (mine, tsohost, do, for their smallest offering, which is far bigger than I need for my website anyway; it includes forwarding, so I have the email forwarded to the email address my connection provider [PlusNet] provide, with no-one else needing to know that address). Such combinations of email/webhost with registration are often cheaper than doing email/webhost with one and registration with another - as well as less hassle of only having to pay one of them. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Everyone looks sun-kissed and beautiful and as you watch it ["Bondi Rescue"], pale and flabby on your sofa, you find yourself wondering if your life could ever be that exotic. (It couldn't. You're British.) - Russell Howard, in Radio Times, 20-26 April 2013 |
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