TheZach wrote:
No - I don't want to use google mail. I don't care what you google fangirls think.
Cool down man...
If you hate Google, you could use either Yahoo or Live, I think both of them offer similar services.
If you hate all of them, you'll need to find an email hosting company and pay them a few bucks a month. I used Tuffmail before, they're very reliable but their user interface is seriously crappy. Don't know about other companies.
If you don't want to pay extra, you'll need to use your Linode to do what you want to do. Postfix can get it done if you configure it to forward emails. Go to your favorite search site and type in a few keywords including "relay", "transport", "exchange", etc. There are quite a few pages that discuss what you want to do.
But seriously, things get messy very quickly if you start doing email work on your Linode. Kill the spam before you forward them anywhere else, or your IP address will be added to somebody's blacklist in a heartbeat!