On 2021-06-22 15:42, Joe wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:17:56 -0400
Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
Doesn't your ISP provide an email server? In my neck of the woods,
its part of the services an ISP provides for a basic 10 megabaud
connection.
It's getting less common in the UK, mostly it comes only with web
hosting. Where it is offered by the ISP, it is usually outsourced.
BT, the national telecoms provider, has always outsourced its email,
even for business customers. About twenty years ago, the advice for
their business customers who wanted email was 'get free Yahoo
accounts'.
Yes, really.
Then they started providing email, outsourcing to Yahoo. Now they use
Microsoft, as almost everyone seems to do, either as webmail or as a
virtual Exchange.
Sky use Yahoo Mail. Every now and again email addresses I've register
with them are blocked from sending until I login to Yahoo Mail and click
"I want to use these alternate addresses" whereupon it says "There was
an Error" and everything works until the next time.
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