On 01/05/09 01:05, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 30 April 2009 09:27:46 Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
>> I want to setup a mail-server later in the summer,
>> for my website(s) *ath frankly3d dhot chom
>> (to save size on my web-space)
>> Sorry to show ignorance, but what exactly is a mail-server?
> Do you mean that people can send email directly
> to whoever@*ath frankly3d dhot chom ?
>> If so, what is the advantage of this?
Control
> Why not just collect email with IMAP or whatever
> from your ISP or place of work?
> Surely that does not use much web-space?
Huh
>> Again, if you are talking about sending email too,
> what is the advantage of running your own smtp server
> as opposed to nominating your ISP as smart host?
>>
Control
Frank
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