For my company they downsized some of our staff so that left so many menial things to get done and maintaining a legit mail server is a pain. so many lists to keep clean and salesmen TRYING to get you blacklisted. For us it just made sense to get the SMTP service.
I still manage so much normal infrastructure but mail is one we had to hand off. I do have experience with it from the hosting company I worked for, but really don't like it at all.
Drew, if you are talking about your own private domain I would recommend against Google or Outlook. I actually moved
to Zoho because they are privacy focused. They offer a ton of features similar to Google and Outlook, but generally less and privacy focused. Not all plans have a fee. There is a "Forever Free Plan" that is for one domain and five users IIRC.
Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers.
One who does not vote has no right to complain.”
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