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In message , David E. Ross
writes:
On 10/9/2018 2:13 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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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