+--------------- | [Google/GMail] dictating that any email service which they deign to | accept connections from must have "SPF" records and a "DKIM" record | in place, plus the "usual" DNS "PTR" record for any domain that they | talk to. No problem for deep-pocketed multi-nationals, of course, | but those of us who run personal servers seldom have the knowledge | or time - or money - to implement such precautions.
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Well, it's not *quite* that bad (yet), though I certainly agree that the intellectual "cost to play" has risen over the last few years.
I too run my own email from a personal server at home with no DKIM, and GMail still accepts mail from my domain.
True, I do use an access ISP [Sonic.net] that allows [though charges for] static IPv4 address(es) on my service [ADSL2+], and that provides a simple tool for providing [though *not* delegating, but that's o.k.] reverse-lookup addresses [PTR records] for those addresses.
And, true, I do run my own DNS, which made adding an SPF record trivial.
And I run Postfix with a fairly tight set of configs, which also helps.
But once it was set up, it all works pretty well, with no lossage at GMail [that I know of].
-Rob
+--------------------------------------------------------------+ Rob Warnock
627 26th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403
***** Moderator's Note *****
Rob, you sound like just the guy I'm looking for: please help me set up the SPF and PTR records for the Telecom Digest. :-)
Bill Horne Moderator