Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

[Justin]

I am in the process of starting a company that may have a service that maybe
just the thing. We are going to be up and running within a month or so. One
of the services we are going to be selling is  "Consumer Grade" Colo
services, it is intended for independant web developers that need to test
sites live before delivery to customers, but there is nothing to say that
you can't use it for anything, like a personal email server. We will be
pricing it at $100 per month. We will be offering it at a discounted rate of
$75 per month for PLUG members. For that we will provide the server, rack
space, bandwidth, and 24/7 support. IT would be a dedicated Dell server with
256K burstable bandwidth. If you are interested please contact me.

Thanks-
Justin
justin@bigcity.nu

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Bob
George
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:37 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
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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