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Electronic Mail

Decades ago, cooking a chicken dinner involved not just frying the chicken, but selecting a tender young chicken out of the coop, terminating it with a kill signal, plucking the feathers, etc. Today, most of us just buy a package of chicken at the grocery store or butcher shop and skip the mess.

Email has evolved in a similar way. Ages ago, it was common for organizations to hand-craft their email infrastructure, sometimes to the point of predetermining exact mail routing. Today, many organizations use packaged, cloud-hosted email services such as Google Gmail or Microsoft Office 365.

Even if your email system ...

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