Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

Technomage plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 05:05:18 -0700


if you need an extra hand, I could certainly use the money/
work expereince. let me know.

Technomage Hawke
623-849-9515

Justin wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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