Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

Cox@Work still won't let you run servers until you get to the Pro
package (unless they've renamed it since I last looked). @Work is
identical to @Home with two exceptions...
1. It costs more.
2. They don't care if you use it for work instead of play.

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 <bobstro@home.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> 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
> >
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