Simple Python script as SMTP server for outgoing e-mails?

[Gilles]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:38:52 -0400, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com>
wrote:
>> Thanks. hMailServer was one of the apps I checked, and I was just
>> making sure there weren't something simpler, considering my needs,
>> ideally something like Mongoose MTA.
>>
>> Regardless, because of the SPAM anti-measures mentioned above, it
>> seems like I was over-optimistic about running an MTA and sending
>> e-mails from my home computer :-/
>>
>
>The reason I mentioned hMailServer is that I host my own mail server for 
>my business--I have a static IP address, and correctly configured 
>DNS--and so I'm able to send out large batches of e-mails to customers 
>from my network without being blocked by my ISP. I'm running a Mac 
>server so my mail system is the typical Unix setup (Postfix, etc.), but 
>hMailServer was the closest thing I've found for Windows.
>
>Configuring your own server isn't cheap in terms of time even if you use 
>FOSS components, and your ISP may charge more for a static IP, so I 
>completely understand if you don't want to go that route.

Thanks for the infos. Indeed, it seems like hMailServer is one of the
few good MTAs for Windows.

I already have a static IP, so the issue is more that remote MTAs
might not accept connections from MTAs running on users' PC instead of
ISP's.