Normally when you setup your box, you pickup a domain name and an IP address
just for local use only (e.g. 192.168.0.5). Outside cannot see you.
To make yourself seen, you must register your domain name, and have an
assigned IP address for your mail server. In this way, when you send out an
email, the recipient machine will come back (through your domain/machine
name and IP address) and ask your mail server: "Are you really there?". You
say "Yes", then the recipient accepts your email, otherwise