Read both your posts.... sounds like you could go with a Linux virtual machine, I did some research on this a while back. About US$25/month with some included bandwidth buys you a User Mode Linux virtual machine. If the websites aren't hit too much you could do it. I think the catch was the limited space they give you, about 2GB of disk but it depends who you go with.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Viveka wrote: > Good hello all, > > I keep most of my stuff hosted in the the US, but I route all my mail > through to an account that I keep going here in Oz. > This is at Webcentral, because there wasn't a lot of choice back when I > first set this up. > I have Bigpond cable (got it prior to ADSL and haven't switched yet), > and I don't trust Telstra's pop servers. > > Webcentral's mail servers are getting flakier every day. They run NT; > naturally I'd prefer a Linux-based mail provider. > And the spam problem is getting unmaneagable. A couple of my favourite > email addresses have finally leaked to the evildoers, and the Bayesian > filters are being successfully gamed by a larger proportion of the spam > that hits my inbox every day. I do get useful mail from strangers > fairly often, so I'm not up for switching to whitelists or setting up > some prove-you're-a-human rigmarole. I'm pretty sure that if the latter > takes off, we'll just start getting spam that pretends to be a "prove > you're a human" message from someone we've mailed, just as we now get > spam pretending to be bounce messages. > Even the of spam that gets caught by my filters is enough to give me > pause; 20MB or so a week. It makes more sense to kill at least most of > it at the server. > > So: what's your favourite mail provider? Anyone using a dedicated mail > service? Or should I just switch to ADSL and use my new ISP's servers? > > Thanks, > > V. > -- > Viveka Weiley, Karmanaut. > http://www.karmanaut.com | http://www.planet-earth.org > http://www.MacWeb3D.org | http://sydney.siggraph.org.au > hypermedia, virtual worlds, human interface, truth, beauty > > -- ---<GRiP>--- Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG/AUUG/Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, BMX rider, Walker, Raver & rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Do people actually read these things? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
