What's your favorite email host? (was: SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives)

[Ben Scott]

On 4/23/07, brk <gnhlug at karas.net> wrote:
> I could easily throw a server up in my colo and give everyone their
> own virt boxes for like $10-$20/mo, but the headaches aren't really
> worth it.

  All of the people (all four of them) who have expressed interested
in this (offline) have repeatedly emphasized that they don't want to
run their own server.  They just want reliable email hosting.
Something a little bit better than Hotmail or a POP mailbox at their
local dial-up provider, but nothing so fancy as a dedicated server.

  You seem to be intent on turning this into a full server project.
I'm not exactly sure why.  Email hosting != full server.

> If you want to manage many aliases and mailboxes and potentially
> domains, you're already practically an admin anyway.

  Erhrmm.  You're administering something, but there's a world of
difference between managing domains, mailboxes, aliases, and
passwords, and managing the a whole server, complete with install,
backups, MTA configuration and tuning, updates, etc., etc., etc.

> And, I'll bet the 4 people that all want this could probably only
> barely agree on a common MTA and spam filter :)

  So long as it meets the criteria given, I don't think the flavor of
MTA matters.  It could be MS Exchange, so long as it works.  (Okay, I
guess that rules out Exchange, but you get the idea.)

-- Ben