On 09.05.2023 at 02:11 Ken Peng via mailop wrote:

May 9, 2023 at 4:07 AM, "Gellner, Oliver via mailop" <[email protected]> wrote:

If a receiver only accepts emails from sender addressed domains for which MX or 
A records exist (such checks are performed by many receiving servers), it means 
a sender has to 1. set up a DNS zone and 2. create a MX or A record within it.


No. A DNS zone is not needed at all for sending email.

My ex-employer is a Nasdaq listed company, whose business email is with 
@staff.sina.com.cn. It has MX only, not a zone.

$ dig staff.sina.com.cn soa +short

$ dig staff.sina.com.cn mx +short
10 staffmx.sina.com.cn.
10 staffmx1.sina.com.cn.

sina.com.cn does have a SOA record. Without creating a DNS zone, the MX records 
could not have been added.
What I wrote was that to satisfy reject_unknown_sender_domain (using your 
example), the sender has to create a) a DNS zone and b) add an A or MX record. 
On the other hand, when the receiver only checks for SOA records up to the 
organizational domain, step b) could be skipped and the check would still pass. 
That’s why I considered the SOA check more relaxed than Postfix’ 
reject_unknown_sender_domain.

—
BR Oliver
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