[javier123454321]

It's simple if you've done that work before, or if you consider yourself little more technical, this is a turnkey solution that does that.

I don't understand why people use Gmail. Just get a VPS and set up a SMTP server. Why would anyone use Squarespace you can code an HTML page in a day and upload it to a static site hosting service.

[aleph_minus_one]

> I don't understand why people use Gmail. Just get a VPS and set up a SMTP server.

This would indeed be a good idea. The problem is that other email providers will often reject your emails (e.g. because they consider your emails to be spam or simply don't trust your server), so this idea is not easy to get to work.

So the next best solution is to use an email provider that is somewhat established (avoiding the mentioned problem), but is more trustable than Google.

[javier123454321]

I'm sorry you might have missed the part where I was being sarcastic.

Setting up your own SMTP server is actually literally a bad idea for the most part. Unless you want to debug your own mail server. Which, I promise you, 99% of users using gmail do not, and should not.

[krzyk]

Email is a bad example, it is quite closed system compared to, well everything else.

One cannot just telnet and send email (that will get delivered) these days, unfortunately.