If you want someone else to host your email and don't want it to be google, i'd be more than happy to host anyone's email. I promise not to read your email and stuff. Really. :-D -brian On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:23:12PM -0400, Joe Ferraro wrote: As much as I can't stand Big Brother -- eh hem -- Google... if you're not talking a hobbyist solution, its just downright difficult to beat their imap / pop3 / web email solution -- especially when blasted SPAM is considered. If you have trouble with the fact that google aggressively analyzes, stores and sells your data trends -- you might want to look at `exim` for linux. Joe On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Fred <fcoffey at thrifty.misernet.net> wrote: On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Mark Wickens wrote: standard email clients but would also like to be able to ssh into a local box and read mail via a character terminal. I do both. I run Linux/Postfix and OpenVMS/PMDF. I can SSH into my Linux box and then check my mail with (al)pine (like I am doing now) and also telnet into my Alpha and read the mail with MAIL or PINE that is included with PMDF. Fred -- "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)