Then why not just pay a Virtual Mail hosting company to host a mail server for you via Imail or one of the other virtual email service packages out there. It is very inexpensive most of the time. That way you have the flexibility of having your own mail server, plus (most of the time) the server is hosted in a controlled environment (ie power, AC, network) et cetera, the benefits are endless. Thanks, -Drew -----Original Message----- From: Roland Perry [mailto:nanog@internetpolicyagency.com] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:42 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Fun new policy at AOL In article <20030829162412.GA9397@dipole.informationwave.net>, Omachonu Ogali <nanog@missnglnk.com> writes

In which case, the telecommuters should use their organization's mail servers with SMTP authentication (yes, authentication, not pop-before-smtp).

I'm a telecommuter, I'm also a freelance, so my organisation is "me". I like the idea of running a reliable mail server with authentication, at my home base. Which is my home. I just have to get AOL not to define it as "residential". -- Roland Perry