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   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   John,   
      
   >> a landlord (of appartment buildings) who dictated which ISP had to be   
   >> used   
   >> by its renters   
   ...   
   > Most definitely! That's like telling people they can only watch certain   
   > TV stations!   
      
   Worse : for whatver ammount of money they wanted to bill you for. :-|   
      
   >> AFAIK the only way that would /not/ be needed is when the DNS is   
   >> configured   
   >> to return, for the origional ISPs domain, the IP of the email provider   
   >> taking over all the origional ISP's email.   
   >   
   > I don't think that _could_ even be done.   
      
   I can't remember how many years ago I came across that tidbit of info, but   
   for some reason I never forgot it.   
      
   "I have had full-time IT professionals tell me that you can't have email on   
   a different server than your website, and that is obviously not the case.   
   That is the whole point of mail exchange records (MX), a type of DNS   
   record."   
   https://www.godaddy.com/resources/mindset/configuring-dns-for-em   
   il-a-quick-beginners-guide   
      
   "The MX records direct email to the appropriate mail server for a domain,   
   facilitating email delivery."   
   https://tecadmin.net/configure-dns-records-for-better-email-delivery/   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)