On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 20:13:10 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, March 23, 2018 06:49:49 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 22:22:45 +0000, Joe wrote: > > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:01:42 -0500 > > > > > > David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > > I venture to suggest that many (most?) .home users will be using their > > > > ISP's smarthost, > > > > > > I'll see your smarthost and raise you a webmail... how many home users > > > are using an email client at all? > > > > Webmail users also use their IPS's smarthost. They are included in "most". > > I don't follow, why do you say that? Or maybe I don't know what an IPS is? > > My current ISP is Earthlink--when I use my email client, it uses Earthlinks > smarthost (I guess that's what it would be called). > > I don't use webmail often, but, if I do, let's say, use gmail from a web page > (i.e., webmail), google handles sending it and receiving replies, right? > > Then I get to see them by viewing the gmail web page, right?
I think Brian was assuming that the webmail user was using the webmail system provided by the ISP itself (rather than a third party's, like Google's). Many ISPs provide such a webmail system. For users who don't normally use them (because they use a smarthost at home), they can be useful when they travel and have no access to that smarthost. That's one of the reasons I use a hosting service, even though it's on the "wrong" continent. Cheers, David.
