Can I send email to friends (say to gmail) from my local computer (IIS or Apache), if yes how?

Question

I am planning to send email to my friends (they are in gmail and hotmail) from my local PC which I use at my home (in dynamic IP). Is it ever possible to configure IIS or Apache in my local PC and connect to home broadband and can send email?

I do not want to take any help from any other hosting company (as generally we do by using .Net or Php by taking SMTP address) so if need I can try to configure some website name to my PC (if possible).

I do not need to get any reply from them they will send again to my gmail address.

Is it ever possible as my plan?

Answer 1

This question may be of some help to you: How to send email from local machine to gmail?

You should be able to run a .NET, PHP or other local web service on your home machine and use one of the libraries included in the link above to send e-mails without requiring a 3rd party web host. Out of curiosity, what are you trying to accomplish exactly? There may be a simpler solution within gmail's API.

Answer 2

What you want is to build a SMTP Server!

Things you will need

• STATIC IP.
• Reverse DNS from your ip to you hostname (type nslookup yourip on cmd.exe the result must be your hostname)
• DNS MX entry on your DNS ZONE like 0 your.host.name.com

A program/code that will implement the RFC2821 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

I have build a SMTP server that ONLY receive emails... maybe you can start from there....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24834765/how-receive-emails-in-net-listening-connection-from-gmail-yahooo-not-a-pop