Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

[Eric]

I was thinking about switching to Cox from Qwest on the theory that I could
get a static IP address with little or no charge, and then set up a Web and
e-mail server.  But is what you are saying that Cox disallows Web and e-mail
hosting by its customers?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Tom
> Achtenberg
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 6:36 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?
>
>
> I would suggest spending up tp $9.95 a month with a hosting
> company.  For that
> you can have up to 200 pop accounts on their server usually with
> spam control.
>
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, you 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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