Why MTA-STS is so rarely used with local e-mail servers ?
borissh1983 at gmail.com
borissh1983 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 21:39:15 IDT 2019
Hi,
In the last few days I was trying to figure how many ("home run" , "small
businesses" or academic ) domains had setup MTA-STS .
Out of 20 domains on this and other mailing lists; only two had MTA-STS. I
have seen that gmail, outlook and gmx have it, but they
are not small nor home run.
As for domains that use providers with MTA-STS, I may be wrong, but It does
not seem
that the domains
that use such providers had setup delegation. ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/
rfc8461#section-8.2 ) .
Why is it so rarely used ?
Why customers of providers that provide MTA-STS do not setup it for their own
domain ?
Test for domain.seclvl.cctld done by :
1.Check if there for txt record for _mta-sts.domain.seclvl.cctld
dig +short -t txt _mta-sts.domain.seclvl.cctld
positive result :
"v=STSv1; id=20190101T020202;"
negative result:
no result.
2. fetching .well-known/mta-sts.txt
Good result :
version: STSv1
mode: testing
mx: smtp.domain.seclvl.cctld
max_age: 86400
bad result:
HTTP 404, 403 etc ..
p.s. the RFC itself https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8461
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