Question Can I receive emails from Plesk on server if I disable mail server?

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We're advising all clients that we host to use a third party provider for email (such as Google GSuite) so that we don't have to run mail servers.

I was wondering though, can system admin still receive email from Plesk on the server (things like resource usage notifications or updates) with the mail server disabled or does this need to be enabled and just disabled for domains/subscriptions specifically?

 

[pleskpanel]

We're advising all clients that we host to use a third party provider for email (such as Google GSuite) so that we don't have to run mail servers.

I was wondering though, can system admin still receive email from Plesk on the server (things like resource usage notifications or updates) with the mail server disabled or does this need to be enabled and just disabled for domains/subscriptions specifically?

Yes, you can disable the mail server (the mail server itself represents customer POP3/IMAP mailboxes while the mail transport agent works separately). The only caveat to mention is that we've seen behavior where even though the mail service itself was turned off via the Plesk GUI (at an admin level, not a subscription level), outgoing mail generated by scripts still tried to use MX DNS records in zones even if DNS was set to external.