Selecting an email host
Email is crucial to businesses in today’s fast-paced environment. No matter how much you may want to get away from this, it is here to stay, which makes choosing a host very important. The email host that you select will handle the technical details of day-to-day operations, such as allowing you to send emails from your own domain, spam filtering, phishing scams, storing files, or it may provide a whole suite of tools, such as, in the case of Outlook, calendars, contact management, and to-do lists.
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A simple way of defining an email host would be to say that email hosting is a service where a hosting provider, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, or Gmail, rents out email servers to its users to allow them to send and receive emails over networks.
There are three main ways to host your email:
- Self-hosted: You must have your own servers, which give you more control and the ability to customize. The disadvantages would be the added cost to build...
