Thank you, yes I agree and I’m not interested in hosting my own mail server. I’m just realizing that I don’t really understand the difference between a mail provider and a domain, and I’ve run into issues before with different mail protocol settings (like when I tried to connect a school outlook account to Thunderbird and couldn’t get it to work because of (I think) IMAP settings).

It’s something I use all the time, and I’d like to better understand how it works.

Good idea, I will have a look at this. Thank you.

Good question, I don’t think I’m interested in hosting emails myself. The goal is likely going to be to choose a different provider. But that being said, I’m curious about what “hosting email” even means. The outcome I’m looking for is to be able to have enough understanding to compare different service providers and understand the differences between them.