> >The way I understood it was that you just needed a reverse entry and the > >names didn't have to match. > > An IP's PTR domain name MUST have a A record whose IP matches. If not, > everybody could forge msn.com, aol.com in the PTR data field. > > the reverse - forward match stops the forgery. > > An IP's PTR record (and matching A record) are totally independent from the > envelope sender/recip domains transiting the IP and from any MX records. > I think I was mixing the email domain name with the server domain and PTR records.
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