Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Lion Server Essentials

Hosting Mail Services

Electronic mail, or email, is one of the fundamental services on the Internet. Lion Server includes a feature-rich email service that you can use to send, receive, and store email for your organization. Aside from the obvious reason of hosting an email server to gain an Internet identity, there are a number of other factors that make hosting your own mail service advantageous. If you have a small office with a slow Internet connection, you may find that keeping all of your email within the building rather than using external email servers makes better use of your network bandwidth. This is especially true if typical messages within your organization include large attachments. Additionally, many organizations are required ...