I second Fastmail. Tuffmail is also worth a look.
Mark writes:
> If you know of an e-mail service that allows me POP3 and SMTP connections,
> would you please post it in a reply.
Newsguy.com
I've been using them for more than ten years with no problems. They
have spam filtering which you can turn off. They also have a Webmail
interface but you don't have to use it. I pay them an annual fee so I
am a customer, not a set of "eyeballs" to be marketed.
I download my mail with Fetchmail which hands it off to Exim for local
delivery ("local" meaning on this machine). I selected "smarthost" when
installing Exim so it connects to Newsguy for all outgoing mail (and
accepts no incoming connections). This is a standard Debian
configuration.
Kmail and Thuderbird will work fine with Newsguy, of course.
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA