So I'm giving serious thought to using another SMTP address. My email
hosting provider is not the same as my connectivity provider; the
connectivity provider may have an SMTP server I can use, so I'm looking
into that.
SMTP is the protocol, (eg "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol"), and the email
address is the username, followed by a "@", followed by the domain
name. The outgoing SMTP server is the server that delivers emails going
out from the email client and the SMTP incoming server is the server that
has all the email accounts, (eg inbox and other folders). In my situation
the SMTP incoming and outgoing servers are one and the same, but they can
be completely different computers with different IPs.
That's the first time I've heard of using SMTP for incoming. We use POP3 to
retrieve incoming emails, and SMTP to send emails. Yes, I shouldn't have
said "address". The email host provider assigns a separate name to the SMTP
server based on the domain name, ie.: mail.MyDomain.org. However, this may
be an alias pointing to a centralized server and not really a separate
server instance, I don't know.
I'm not sure having a separate server to deliver emails would solve your
problem. if an email was sent by a user, whose account was over quota, to
be delivered by a separate outgoing server, any reply from a recipient
would fail, due to quota limits, and the user whose account was over quota
might not be notified of the problem. LOL
You have a point there. I'll have to think about that.
From what I've gather from reading the threads, you're currently running
on an ISP mail server that services accounts under multiple domains, (eg
a single mail server servicing multiple domains), and you can administer
your own domain with the HTML interface provided by your ISP. You might
consider setting up another domain with your ISP devoted strictly for
email services.
Well the only other thing done with the domain is web hosting. I would hate
to have to propagate email address or web URL changes out to everybody who
uses them now. I think that would be way too disruptive.
Of course, there's always early retirement... *LOL*
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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