Good IMAP hosts

Larry Garfield <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:54:56 -0500
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It's me again. :-)

It turns out that Comcast is going to be somewhat delayed in hooking up 
Internet access at the new house.  I can survive myself without home Internet 
for a few days (it will probably do me good), but at present I run my own mail 
server in my living room.  Having that offline for a few days would be very 
not good, as I'm not the only one that uses it.

I figure this is a good opportunity to look into 3rd party mail hosts, 
something I've been meaning to do for a while.  While I could just grab a 
random VPS somewhere and install my own mail server again, in the past that's 
been a full day project (dear god I hate mail servers) and it's not something 
I'd be looking forward to.  So, that means a full on mail host.

What I would need:

- I have my own domain and mail dns, and want to keep using it.
- I have a metric assload of mail archives, which I want to preserve, so a 
large capacity.
- IMAP access.  (I don't care of it has POP, but I do want fast IMAP.)
- Server-side mail filtering.  I don't mean spam (although that too), but the 
ability to filter mail into folders server-side rather than relying on my 
desktop mail client to do it.
- A webmail client that doesn't suck (read: Not SquirrelMail.)
- Not one of the megacorps that owns the Interwebs. (Vis, not Google).  I 
don't trust them with their increasing power.
- Other PIM integration is fine, but not required.

A for-pay service is fine if it's worth it.

Does the above description ring any bells?

--Larry Garfield
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