Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

Nathan England plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
22 Aug 2001 07:59:45 -0700


I'll second that!

Nathan England
602.363.0814


> 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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