[kwlug disc.] OT: smarthost mail providers

[unsolicited]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is 'smarthosting'?

Or more particularly, what is 'smarthosting' accomplishing for you in 
your instance?

	If I read your message correctly, you have an internal mail server. 
Your internal server sends / retrieves all mail from the smarthost 
mail server, which servers as your 'public' data / connection entry / 
dispatch point?

	Along the way this public entry point is providing some spam / virus 
/ etc. facilities?

Would you accomplish the same thing with postini?

Paul Nijjar wrote, On 03/31/2008 9:40 AM:
> We were smarthosting via Rogers's mailservers, but recent policy
> changes are likely going to make that either difficult or impossible,
> depending on whether I could set up Exim and make it talk to our
> Exchange server by Thursday. 
> 
> So we are thinking of (but not committed to) purchasing services from
> somebody who is willing to serve as a smarthost for us. At this point
> we only need a service for outgoing mail -- we get incoming mail
> another way. This is for an organization with a bit over 100 active
> e-mail accounts (nonprofit, if it matters). 
> 
> Does anybody have suggestions for good, reliable and
> reasonably-priced
> providers?