I don't do reverse dns and most people get my email just fine.  If you
don't I probably don't care enough to hear about it.

I have 5 static IPs at home that resolve.  Nothing hard about it; I just
refuse to pay $5/month for reverse lookups.

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:38:30AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:51:31AM -0800, Chris wrote:
> > > I have a P3 box with 120GB HDD that's doing web, ssh and samba at the 
> > > moment. I
> > > am planning setup sendmail, spamd, mimedefang, clamd and spam-assassin
> > > on this box along with web, ssh and samba.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has any experience with running a mail
> > > server at home.
> > >
> In reality, you cannot run your own mail server at home. This would
> require:
> 
> 1) DNS resolution for your domain name
> 2) Appropriate MX records
> 3) Valid REVERSE DNS for your IP
> 
> #3 is usually the big factor for most ISPS, without it, you will not be
> able to send email to any 'sane' mail server.
> 
>       Lee
> 
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