Your email service is where the emails live and the email client is what you use to check your messages and interact with your folders on the email server.
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What’s the difference: email inbox, alias and forward?
Inbox is a label to send email to, and an mailbox to respond from. Alias is a label but no inbox to send from. Forward is a bounce from one inbox to another. Distribution List is an alias that act as a forward to route to a set collection of inbox’s. An inbox will receive… Continue reading What’s the difference: email inbox, alias and forward?
SPF Explained
Back in the old days of the internet there was much less automated bad-behavior. Not-a-days scams and spam are inexcapable. So things have evolved and changed to adapt. SPF is Sender Proof verification… which means the receiving server checks a DNS record to see if it’s supposed to get a message from that sending sender.… Continue reading SPF Explained