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> I tunnel my mail through a co-located mail server ... 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 considerably, 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 storage, so a 10GB partition (more than needed for a mail relay) would be $12/year. 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 server, how do I keep the cost down under, say, $100/year? (The obvious alternative is to buy commercial-grade home ISP service, which is unnecessary and frankly the home email server is a luxury that I don't really need but prefer to 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.) -rich
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