Alternatives for outbound email service

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I was running an smtp server through Comcast when I installed fedora 13
because I had something misconfigured in my ssh tunnel. Currently, like
JABR I have a passwordless login on the BLU server and I do port
forwarding.

On 09/26/2010 06:12 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
>> I tunnel my mail through a co-located mail server ...
>>    =20
> That's one way to get an external routable IP address, but I don't have=
 that
> right now.
>
> Acquaintances have told me that Amazon EC2's pricing has dropped consid=
erably,
> and a quick check of their site shows that for $54/year one can get a "=
micro
> reserved instance" which is 613MB of RAM plus ten cents/month/GB for st=
orage,
> so a 10GB partition (more than needed for a mail relay) would be $12/ye=
ar.=20
> That's a price I could live with though the price list is daunting and =
I
> suspect those would not be the only line items on the bill.
>
> So, if I follow John's suggestion and actually purchase a colo mail ser=
ver,
> how do I keep the cost down under, say, $100/year?  (The obvious altern=
ative
> is to buy commercial-grade home ISP service, which is unnecessary and f=
rankly
> the home email server is a luxury that I don't really need but prefer t=
o keep
> for the sake of principle--it's something I've had since the "old days"=
 of the
> Internet when all these restrictions and costs didn't exist.)
>  =20

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