[TriLUG] Commercial Smart Host Providers

[Tom Roche]

Brian Henning Mon, 17 Nov 2014 20:14:10 +0000
>> I've been taking advantage of TriLUG's kind generosity and smart-hosting my outbound e-mail through pilot.

Not sure what you mean by "smart host." If you're only interested in SMTP:

Years ago, after my nth school/work/email-provider move and associated annoyance, I started paying pobox.com 20 $/yr for {email forwarding, static email address}. However, as part of that basic plan, pobox.com also provides an SMTP server, which has become nearly as valuable to me, and via which you are receiving this email. (pobox also provides NNTP, IIRC, but I haven't used that in awhile.)

IMHO pobox.com is stable, reliable, and reasonably-priced. It also allows me to

James Jones Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:13:42 -0500
> use the free [IMAP] service of Google

on the backend without being publicly at gmail.com , which would annoy if (e.g.) Google went payware or became less not-evil than they are now. OTOH, pobox.com could become !!evil. Ya never know (unless you're the NSA :-)

HTH, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>