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I manage my own e-mail server. I occasionally have outbound messages rejected because my hosting provider's entire network sometimes appears on block/deny lists. I also have an e-mail account hosted by Microsoft Exchange Online. Yesterday, an outbound message from that account was rejected by a receiving server because the IPv4 address of one or more of Microsoft's servers was on a public block list.

Perhaps having multiple addresses hosted by different providers is now becoming a practical necessity.
#email #smtp #security


I have now configured my mail server to provide an MTA-STS policy for inbound message encryption. I already had DANE set up, but some providers only use MTA-STS.
The only real difficulty I encountered was that my SMTP server needed to present the entire certificate chain to mail senders; otherwise, some of them (Google, at least) would fail to verify the certificate.
#SMTP #MailServer