On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 05:54:56PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > mick crane wrote: > > > > well when I became aware of all this stuff, I thought this is great, > > everybody can connect and do what they like, if of course following > > protocols. > > But you can't do that can you ? you have to connect through a service > > provider. > > You can and you can't. > > In theory you can. > > In practice, the email giants -- GMail, Outlook.com, and a few > others -- demand certain things that make it very difficult to > deliver mail to them if you've just got a home net connection.
I, for one, do. I run my own mail server. But yes, you gotta invest some elbow grease. Cheers -- tomás
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