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TIL about those DNS configurations.

It does look like they are actually for clients (i.e. MUAs doing IMAP & Submission), not for relay (i.e. MTAs doing SMTP/SMTPS).

I've used MTA-STS and XML to enable auto-config for my stuff:

https://vadosware.io/post/thunderbird-autoconfig-for-your-se...

Oh and it looks like MTA-STS might be the solution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#...

Turns out there's an excellent guide by the UK government:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/email-security-and-anti-s...

https://www.security.gov.uk/guidance/email-guidance/mta-sts/...

Relevant RFC:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8461



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