Email hosting is when a company has it’s email hosting by a third party company. This is done for a number of reasons - the company can automatically filter spam for you; they can pre-scan all the emails for virii; your emails can be accessed by a number of popular protocols such as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP; they may support fax to email services; there should be a set up-time in your contract meaning you have a reliable service. For companies, email hosting is an attractive option because it means they don’t have to spend time and money looking after their own mail server.

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