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Jim, what can we do to increase the odds of our email reaching the intended destination on self-hosted domains?


I'm not Jim, but what I've done is:

1) have a valid PTR record for the email server.

2) Set up SPF records.

3) Just run email on it. If you do run a webserver on the same server, DON'T RUN PHP! In my experience [1] the single most abused attack vector on webservers is PHP and about 60% of the time it's abused to install spam sending software on the server and that leads to the IP address getting marked as a spammer.

[1] About fifteen years in web-hosting.




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