SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives

[Ben Scott]

On 4/23/07, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
> For my kids, I provide email addresses that simply forward to their school email
> addresses.

  Tends to fall apart if the aliases receive a lot of spam.  Spammer
sends to alias host, alias host forwards to mailbox host, mailbox host
identifies message as spam.  One of two things generally happen next:
(1) Mailbox host identifies alias host as a spam source, blacklists
mailbox host, possibly publishes blacklist to other systems.  Or, (2)
Mailbox host rejects spam message during SMTP, alias host tries to
send a DSN for spam message, which bounces, resulting in backscatter
problems and lots of headaches for alias host postmaster.

-- Ben