I look forward to the day when it will be easy to set up and configure a mail server at home. By all accounts, it is currently a very painful process that is prone to error and interrupted service.
Doing it at home probably isn't a practical option unless you somehow get an IP that isn't blacklisted, but doing it on a VDS isn't that bad.
I host my email on a VDS. I would kind of like to be able to host other people's too, but I've always been freaked out by having the ability to read my friends' emails.
er. this is probably a dumb idea. works for 1 person only i guess. you can use google's smtp after signing up for google apps. http://emailrelay.sourceforge.net/ is 1 of the ways to relay(actually more forward than relay i guess) via smtp.gmail.com. now you're not blacklisted? even if you're running your server at home on dynamic ip? now u just need to be able to update enom or dyn whats your ip as it changes?
I look forward to the day when it will be easy to set up and configure a mail server at home. By all accounts, it is currently a very painful process that is prone to error and interrupted service.