Title: pingomatic and example
Last modified: November 20, 2019

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# pingomatic and example

 *  [ketanco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketanco/)
 * (@ketanco)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingomatic-and-example/)
 * I am looking at settings > writing and i see
    example.com for mail server and
   pingomatic for update services
 * i didnt write those
    are they default? should they stay there? do they have benefit?
   if so what? or should i delete them?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingomatic-and-example/#post-12156597)
 * Those are the defaults. 🙂
 * `example.com` for the mail server, just to illustrate what goes there.
 * Ping-o-Matic for the update service because it pings multiple sites that still
   accept pings: [http://pingomatic.com/](http://pingomatic.com/) (in the old days,
   it pinged somewhere around 25 different services, but most have closed down over
   the years).
 * I recommend leaving both as-is, unless you plan to operate your own mail server.

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