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Most (all?) don't have POP3/IMAP for incoming mail (they use webhooks for your web app) so you could send email through these but not easily receive it.
by gerry_shaw 11y ago
Most (all?) don't have POP3/IMAP for incoming mail (they use webhooks for your web app) so you could send email through these but not easily receive it.
- Xeoncross 11y agoPerhaps there is a hack where you could configure the receive hook to forward the JSON object to some other free service (like the cloud databases) and then configure your desktop/mobile app to pull from there?
- glogla 11y agoThe problem with having your own mailserver is mostly that google and hotmail won't accept your mail. So you could have your own POP3/IMAP server, and only send outgoing mail through the transactional service.
- icebraining 11y agoYeap, that's me. I have it configured as a smart host[1] on my self-hosted exim server, so I can change it in just one place, without touching the email clients. Came in handy recently :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_host https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_host