After ~3 months, my email is operational. I wish it was as simple as starting smtpd but there were a lot of unique challenges which I did not think I would face. In the coming weeks I will address the article that I used to figure out how to get this all set up.
How to contact me
My email is grady@mckeddie-owens.com, you can now write to me on this email and I will be able to recieve it and respond to you.
Downtime
For the 0 viewers that read my blog, you will be sorely dissapointed to know that in a bit (maybe a day, maybe a week), the email will likely go down to create proper spam filters.