"John McGrail" <ratfood@food.skaterat.net> wrote in message
news:slrnfahur2.t68.ratfood@spearmint.skaterat.net ...
> On 2007-07-26, Steve at fivetrees <steve@NOSPAMTAfivetrees.com> wrote:
>>
>> It seems important to me to use an external mailbox (or mailboxes),
>> since my home server may or may not be on and/or connected; and my
>> domain server (also OpenBSD) does all the spamtrapping etc. Perhaps I
>> should bite the bullet and point my MX records at my home server, and
>> open up the ports etc etc...
>>
>> But is there a better way? What's "best practice" on this these days?
>> ETRN?
>>
>
> While the answer is not OpenBSD either ... I've looked into services
> via http://www.tuffmail.com in the past when considering outsourcing
> my incoming mail services. The prices seemed reasonable and the
> antispam features seemed plentiful.
>
> That said, it was over a year ago that I looked at tuffmail. I
> currently
> use a webhosting provider that currently gives me a lot of control
> over
> sendmail so I haven't actually used the tuffmail services.

Well, it happens that my domain/hosting servers are fivetrees.com -
which I own . So I also have good control over sendmail there.
(Currently at fivetrees, we don't provide mailboxes - we simply forward
to named ISP mailboxes. I could adapt/change this if necessary.)

Steve
http://www.fivetrees.com