E-MailRelay is described as 'A lightweight mail server with SMTP and POP3 support. It mainly used as store-and-forward mail server with POP access to spooled messages or it can be used as a personal internet mail server' and is a Mail Server in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to E-MailRelay for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted, BSD and Windows apps. The best E-MailRelay alternative is Postfix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like E-MailRelay are Mail-in-a-box, Haraka, Exim and OpenSMTPD.
The Postfix is more popular smtp server but it's more complicated to configure and it's Lunux/Unix only while the ER works on Windows too.