> It's been awhile since I looked into it, but I recommend outsourcing your > email. > > Companies like fusemail (http://www.fusemail.com/solutions/resellers.html ) > will give you accounts at $0.69/month/account for a 1GB account (last time I > checked anyway). They provide an API and a dashboard for managing it. They > also handle backups, I believe (read the fine print before you trust me). I > think there is spam filtering and anti-virus built in too. Kept thinking that as well. Only issue is that 0.69 x 2000 equals a pretty good chunk of change for us. One thing I would reccommend though is putting it in a colocation facillity rather then local. Also start with a beefy machine because its a real pain to upgrade later. Matt