SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives

[Ben Scott]

On 4/20/07, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
> MV, and probably other ISPs, offers a catch all feature that is a
> halfway house to running your own server.  You can have a mailbox that
> receives all mail to your domain whose user name portion doesn't match
> that of one of your explicitly named mailboxes or one of their
> aliases.

  The problem with such a catch-all mailbox is that there are spammers
out there in the world trying dictionary and other brute-force attacks
against the user portion of the email address.  Catch-all mailboxes
can very quickly accumulate massive amounts of spam.  Aggressive spam
filtering can help counter that, but aggressive spam filtering is
often incompatible with other business needs (such as the ability to
receive unsolicited communications from potential new customers).

-- Ben