Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

[Digital Wokan]

You might be able to do something using fetchmail and Yahoo webmail
accounts.  (They offer pop access.)  You could filter the messages on
receipt.

Bob George wrote:
> 
> 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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