Colo Hosting is so cheap these days, if mail is all you want, I'd recommend considering just spending the $60-$100/year and let someone else manage your mail server.
This is an excellent point. Due to spam, managing mail servers is a steadily increasing burden, making it more economical for most small businesses to just outsource it. Years ago that meant giving up flexibility, but a side effect of the explosion in the web hosting market has been mail hosting services complete with web-based GUIs for creating mailboxes, aliases, autoresponders, and mailing lists.
It's not hard to find a provider that will give you 50 or 100 mailboxes with IMAP access and unlimited aliases for $100 to $150/year. One provider I've used, Dreamhost, recently rolled out an enhanced interface to their spam filtering where you can control whitelists and SpamAssassin thresholds on a per-mailbox basis.
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