I'm interested in sending mail to the destination via an SMTP server hosted on my own computer. Why route it to ANOTHER SMTP server, when I'm running one on my own computer.

Also though any mail sent TO me will ARRIVE at my server via an SMTP relay. which means if I want to recieve email without a 3rd party service like Hotmail or Gmail, I'm gonna need to be my own email service provider. This will not limit usernames to ones that are currently available (as a lot of cool user names have already been taken on 3rd party servers). For example, my email address is [email protected] but I hand WANTED it to be [email protected]. The benefit of running my OWN personal mail server/service and having it internet connected would be that I could actually have WHATEVER ACCOUNT NAME I WANTED without worrying the account name was already in use. For example I could be [email protected] or [email protected] (if I didn't want to pay a DNS server to host MX records, but just have people use my IP address directly, instead of a domain name).

Also if I have my own server I can have UNLIMITED EMAIL ADDRESSES, but I don't want it for spamming. Gmail and other services usually limit the number of email addresses registered at a single IP address within a given amount of time. Now you see, there's a couple other websites I'm member at, but they have me banned for saying stuff the admin didn't like. Since registration at most sites associates your email address with your user account at the site in question, unlimited number of email addresses at my disposal means unlimited number of accounts I can have on a website, which in turn means an unlimited number of times I can perform the action known as "ban dodging". And this can work indefinitely (or until the admin performs an IP addreess ban). So yeah, there is a BIG BENEFIT to literally OWNING AN EMAIL SERVER.


But this port 25 blocking that Comcast is doing is REALLY going to put a damper on this idea I got.