> You don't email your lawyer. You ask Alphabet to do it for you (gmail).
I don't know what point you're trying to make. Are you assuming everyone uses Google's webmail interface or their apps? Maybe those blur the lines of classic Internet email delivery but when I use Mail.app to send an email, I am the one doing the emailing, not the Google SMTP server acting as a mail transfer agent (MTA).
> Many block the outgoing SMTP port
Comcast doesn't, Time Warner doesn't, Verizon doesn't. My hunch is the large majority of U.S. residential ISP customers can connect to an SMTP server other than their ISP's.
I don't know what point you're trying to make. Are you assuming everyone uses Google's webmail interface or their apps? Maybe those blur the lines of classic Internet email delivery but when I use Mail.app to send an email, I am the one doing the emailing, not the Google SMTP server acting as a mail transfer agent (MTA).
> Many block the outgoing SMTP port
Comcast doesn't, Time Warner doesn't, Verizon doesn't. My hunch is the large majority of U.S. residential ISP customers can connect to an SMTP server other than their ISP's.