I am setting up my personal email server, on my own device, on a Cloudflare registered URL. Gmail requires PTR record in the DNS setting or it rejects the email.
what name would I put in the name box and what would I put in the domain box?
Cloudflare doesn’t send email. The PTR will need to be set/managed by whoever is providing the IP for your server sending the mail.
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I don’t fully under stand the reply. The email server runs in my home and is routed through my ISP… If Cloudflare don’t support PTR records why is there a record available on the DNS settings?
When you connect to Gmail from your server in your home through your ISP, the IP address that your ISP handed over to your network is being used, and is the IP address that Gmail sees.
The Reverse DNS (PTR) record for the IP address there can only be controlled by your ISP.
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Cloudflare does, but those records are created in zones which end in in-addr.arpa where the IPs have been delegated to that zone. Short answer is the records are created and maintained by the entity that controls the IP address space.
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You can expect to not have a good time with that. Residential IPs are typically going to be included in policy block lists such as, but not limited to, the Spamhaus PBL. Lists like these are use by mail server operators to refuse email connections from hosts in IP ranges where the network operator has indicated there should be no email relays operating.
You may find that using a smarthost between your on site mail server and the internet at large is more successful strategy.
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