I own the domain [mylastname.com]. For decades I've had a "real" email address at yahoo, gmail, or a university and I forwarded email from [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to my "real" account. No one new my real account and I never needed to update people that my email address was changing. (I adopted this initially with bigfoot in the 90s). A few other members of my family do the same.

Now for the problem - in the last year or so spam filtering has gotten overly aggressive and I can't get my email. What happens is this:

1. email comes in to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) at my webhost.
2. Webhost forwards it to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), but now it considers it outgoing mail
3. The outgoing spam filter sees a mailing list or something else slightly commercial and blocks it.
4. No one is notified of the block. The sender doesn't even get a bounce message.

I talked to my webhost and the best they could do was migrate me to another web server that used MailChannels instead of SpamExperts, but hat only made it worse. I talked to tech support at MailChannels and they basically said my best bet was to stop using their product. My web host won't opt me out of spam filtering because of fairly obvious reasons.

What are my options? I understand that ignoring a tech system for 15 years leads to some obsolescence, but at this point I've resigned myself to be dragged (kicking and screaming of course) into whatever the newer solution is. I really don't want to go back to thunderbird/whatever has replaced pop3. I don't want to do google hosting since not everyone in my family likes google (my sister uses hotmail. No, I can't explain why). The other thing is that all of us do hybrids - we have some email going to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), and some email goes directly to the gmail/hotmail/whatever account. Having two email accounts to check is a pain in the neck. Is there some way to combine these two accounts without using forwarding? Any webhosts that won't do content filtering on my mail? Another obvious solution I'm missing?

Hi everyone, I am currently looking at making a website for the first time ever for selling self-published comics, and in the course of looking at web hosts have become aware that for any eCommerce purposes I need to ensure my host is PCI-DSS compliant.

I was talking to support at Zume who told me their two cheapest options (Launch and Ultimate Shared Hosting) are NOT PCI-DSS compliant but that their Managed WordPress services are, and wondered if anyone knew to what degree this is the case for Nixihost, KnownHost, InMotion and Krystal? There doesn't seem to be a general "Is/Is not PCI-DSS compliant" as a standard listing on feature lists for any plans so I'm a little lost as to this. Any help or clarification on this point would be welcome!