On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >I'm quite happy with my own ISP and the services they provide, and > > if it wasn't for the fact that I'm such a geek, I'd be using their > > mail, DNS, web etc. services. However, I choose not to; I run my > > own servers for these services for my domain, and thus do not > > suffer from any cock-ups other than my own - I use my ISP for > > connectivity only. I guess that would be an option for you too? > > > >Paul. > > No darnit, the TOS specificly precludes running a server of any kind, > and they do actively block port 80. Top that with my firewall set to > block all non-established incoming, and a mail server here would be > unreachable anyway. I'd have to setup an entry for a dmz, and alias > that to another port 1:1 to do that, although I have considered > setting up qmail a time or two. I'd have to setup something to keep > me uptodate at dyndns of course as my IP address does change > occasionally. ---- you need to think outside of the box... you can run your own mail server inside your network - use 'fetchmail' to get email from a pop/imap mailbox from pretty much anywhere. Then you have full control over spam filtering, virus scanning, procmail/sieve filtering, etc. Craig