I have to take back any recommendation I've ever made for Dreamhost. Sorry.

I've been battling with email outages for the past two months and when you think everything is fine, there goes another 10-48 hours or intermittent access or complete inability to either check POP3 mail or use SMTP servers (sometimes just one and not the other).

Dreamhosts's prices are unfortunately too good to be true. If you don't mind outages like this, then they probably can't be beat. But I think I may just have to bite the bullet and look elsewhere soon.