Does email count towards website bandwidth?

[JohnM]

Does email traffic count towards website bandwidth?

Sorry I have to ask such a novice question. I couldn't find a reference to it in other threads.

Thank you.

[AndrewT]

Yes, it does. If you go to the bandwidth section in cPanel you'll find that it does report bandwidth usage for IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 in addition to HTTP.