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		justahuman74 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Self-hosting email like it's 1984 What do people do about PTR records on residential addresses?

drnick1 3 months ago [–]

I don't think a PTR record is strictly necessary for good deliverability. In fact, I regularly receive emails from IPs with nonexistent or mistmatched PTR records.

man8alexd 3 months ago | [–]

A lot of small self-hosted SMTP servers bounce on missing PTR records. It is easy to configure and it filters out a lot of spam.

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