if I have communications with someone through the internet with a homeserver. I would inevitably give out my IP address. Is that a bad thing? In my country they don’t have services like that, RTCing would be a bit sluggish using available euro servers.

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    One thing:

    Hosting email at home is not possible at all. Since you didn’t rent a static IP address and set the inverse zone of your email domain, most public and common email servers will auto-block you.

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      3 years ago

      You need two static email addresses?

      Edit: At this point I’ll have another service provider to have my own email.

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        3 years ago

        In DNS you have a direct zone for records A, AAAA, MX, TXT, etc and an inverse zone also called rDNS for PTR records.

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      It’s not impossible – if everyone starts doing it, then most public and common email servers cannot block them.

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        Self-hosting without applying these checks (which would involve signing a contract and exposing property data about the static IP address) is a thing used by spammers and they have the blocking automatized most times.