Dedicated web/mail hosting is available for $10/month more or less. Check out: http://www.flsuncoast.com - $8/month, and will be moving my site to his servers. My current provider (WorldMarket.com) charges $30 or so (I get it free, as I set up the servers and network), and his resellers sell for $15-20 per month (http://best1hosting.net). These are 100 mbps LANS connected to Fibre. Check out some traceroutes and ping times to them. --- georgetoft.com ping statistics --- 100 packets transmitted, 95 packets received, 5% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 44.0/156.8/4568.7 ms --- flsuncoast.com ping statistics --- 100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 51.9/87.8/412.0 ms As you can see, Mike's speeds are better than my previous employer and the quality is much better. George Bob Cober wrote: > > Just an idea - you could upgrade to cox@work. I don't think they are doing > any filtering on cox@work. I saw a promotion on their site for $75/month - > not exactly cheap, but any dedicated host will cost you more than that.... > > I am pondering upgrading myself because of the filtering.... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bob George > To: > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:37 PM > Subject: Consumer grade e-mail hosting options? > > > Well, @Home has finally pulled the plug, and my little guerilla SMTP > server > > is no longer reachable from the world at large. It's something I've > expected > > for years, but I'm disappointed. Anyhow, I'm now trying to find viable > > alternatives for e-mail for my family, while still allowing myself to keep > > spam under control. > > > > I want to be able to set up various aliases (i.e. > newsaccount@mydomain.com, > > disposableaccount@mydomain.com, plug@mydomian.com) for different lists, as > > well as for each family member. I had this working perfectly with > fetchmail, > > procmail and postfix to sort and file mail for access via IMAP, but now it > > seems I need to do something similar elsewhere. > > > > What I think I'm looking for is a very inexpensive pop3 account hosting. > I'd > > like to register mydomain.com, and be able to manage a number of accounts > > under that domain. Probably 10-20 maximum, but it is nice to have > > flexibility. Hopefully it won't be a pay-per-account as I really don't > know > > what accounts I'll want yet. I would then be able to poll these via > > fetchmail from my Linux mail server and still do all my sorting and > > filtering there. > > > > Many web hosting services seem to provide a handful of accounts, but I'm > > hoping for something more flexible, if not mail-centric. > > > > Any tips or ideas appreciated. It's not a panic situation yet, but I hate > to > > go back to having only one account again. > > > > - Bob > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss