I'm not entirely sure this is the right group to ask, so apologises if not.
Right group.
You can. To use the D20 license you must make sure that you don't have "interactive game" elements. If you want interactive game elements (as described in the license), then you can't use the D20 license, but can use the OGL.The question is would it be legal to use d20 SRD items (Spells, Monsters, Feats, Rules, etc) in a *computer* moderated play-by-email/web game? I suspect you can't but it would be useful to know.
Your "interactive" PBEM would probably be okay for D20 as well, assuming that the PBEM stuff is high level results of success or fail, without distributing low-level game mechanics.
A lot of this is actually about electronic *publishing*. If you have a program that you want to run personally and e-mail the results to people, then licensing restrictions are vastly simplified.
If you intend to develop any kind of program and make it available to others, then there is a big gotcha in the Wizard's interpretation of "clearly marked open content" from the SRD. Basically, any OGC you implement in distributed code must be human readable, which basically means you can't *compile* game mechanics code and distribute it.
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