E-mail Services

I'm currently hunting around for a good e-mail service. The hosting company here doesn't provide an outbound SMTP server, neither do they provide security for the POP3 traffic. GeekMail looks interesting and is only $40 per year and I would be able to keep using my @tgharold.com domain name.

I've been googling for any complaint threads, and other then them getting blacklisted by SPEWs once (innocent bystander, and SPEWs makes it a point to wreak damage on bystanders), I haven't found any threads.

Links:

Finding the right email provider with IMAP support
Spamotomy (listing of hosting services)

IPSec

Trying to figure out IPSec again... hopefully turning it on on our Win2000 servers so that more and more network traffic will be encrypted at the office. However, on my Windows XP laptop, I can't find the setting to start using IPSec. The old Win2000 servers and workstations had an option under Advanced TCP/IP Settings called IP Security that would let me choose one of the following (3) options:

Client (Respond Only)
Windows2000 clients should have this setting turned on.

Server (Request Security)
Middle-of-the-road setting for servers operating in a mixed environment, it'll encrypt when possible, but fall back to unencrypted when the client doesn't support it. I'm currently attempting to use this on my Win2k clients as well and so far it seems to be fine with it.

Secure Server (Require Security)
This is the golden option, if you have complete control over the environment (or have the time to go back and fix/upgrade everyone that is going to connect to your server) that will force all traffic to/from the server to be encrypted. Turning this on will prevent non-domain computers from communicating with the server (e.g. I have a laptop from the office that I sometimes use to remote control my home servers).

resource links - check the end of this article for a list of links