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Serving email

Serving email

From the course: Setting Up a Small-Office Network

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Serving email

- [Voiceover] Obviously, just about everyone needs the ability to send and receive email. Let's look at some of the different options you have with how to handle your email on a small network. One option would be to go with one of the free providers. We could also choose to go with a hosted provider where we pay a monthly fee, or we could run an email server on our own network. Let's look at each of these options individually. The first option, a free provider. There are several free providers out there. All of these will provide a web-based interface for you to send and receive your email. The free providers have come a long way recently, and they offer some pretty rich features. They're very easy to use and the web-based interface offers great mobility. You can use them from just about any computer in the world. A hosted provider is what I recommend for most small businesses. This is where we utilize some service. Typically we pay a monthly fee to that service, and that service will…

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