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My cloud hosting provider wants to charge for setting up a PTR record, which I'm not up for.

As I use Mailjet as an SMTP relay server, do I even need to have it setup? Or will all my emails reverse to their SMTP server?

Jack_Hu
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    The short answer is no. If you are submitting mail to an external mailserver for delivery, it will be their `PTR` record that needs to be set correctly. You still need to set up other things like `spf` records, but don't need a `PTR`. – tater Dec 31 '20 at 22:27
  • @anx - It's automated, but in order to setup a DNS Zone (a pre-requisite for the PTR), there's additional fees involved. – Jack_Hu Jan 01 '21 at 16:41
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    You're right charging for setting PTR record is a tad off, it's a basic (free) feature offered by most providers OVH, Vultur, etc - it's literally a single record set on a nameservers. As tater mentioned, it's not needed since you're using a third party; thus emails will originate from there mail servers. – Ashley Primo Jan 02 '21 at 16:06

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