On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:59:48AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/28/07 19:18, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:05:58PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > [..] > > > >>> So the first thing he needs is a friendly ISP. I don't think > >>> cablevision would let me run a server. > >> Would they even know if he's running imap-ssl? Especially if it's > >> on a non-standard port? > > > > With millions of subscribers all over the Eastern seaboard they would > > likely just run some package to detect "suspicious" users of their > > systems .. and I would rather not my name/account popped up on some > > report or other. > > Maybe, but I doubt it. Usually ISPs just block 80, 25 & 20/21.
IOW, they have no clue what's really going on .. :-) > >>> Or are there outfits that sell imap server hosting? > >> > >> fastmail.fm > > > > Yes, but then where the OP is concerned, I think he needs to have his > > imap server pull mail from a bunch of other accounts for this to work. > > So he'd need a sufficient control over his hosted imap server to run > > some fetchmail/getmail process periodically, right? > > > > Does fastmail.fm offer a plan that lets you do that? > > Don't know, didn't look. He can go to fastmail.fm and do the > research if he's so inclined. Had two free accounts with them and they didn't like that .. sending me nasty emails and stuff .. add to it that I don't need imap .. and found their handling of imap serving rather inflexible .. when it came to creating folders for instance .. So, I deserted .. .. was only using them for testing/evaluation, anyway ... Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]