Re: domain names, was: hostname

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 17:38:52 (-0000), Dan Purgert wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 10:31:13 (-0000), Dan Purgert wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> The ones that're plastered all over the webmail interface that "joe
> >> typical home user" uses, because thunderbird is too hard :).
> >
> > You're now introducing another constituency of users who might not even
> > know what a hostname is, let alone be worrying about what to write as
> 
> I thought those were the users that you meant with "home users".

Well, rather than going all the way back to my first contribution
to this thread, just pop back half a dozen to the last part of
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg00825.html

The three items I mentioned were MTAs, smarthosts, and conversation here.
Perhaps you can explain the connection with webmail. I never use it.

Cheers,
David.