
When you get your email, that’s where it comes from. Email that is destined for you is collected on a server that’s run by your email provider.

If your email address is provided by your ISP, then it’s their server. If your email address is then that mail server is run by the folks at Microsoft who own Hotmail. When they send you email, it is placed in a central location provided by your email service provider ( ESP). Clearing up some of that should help you understand what’s happening here, and also help you decide how you want to handle it.Įmail comes from everywhere: from all of your correspondents and potentially from people all over the globe.

There are a lot of misunderstandings of exactly what email is, where it lives, and what it means to have an email address.
