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Not really. Until MTA-STS is deployed in “hard fail” mode by almost everybody it doesn’t matter.

Similarly, SPF/DKIM did not solve spam because nobody was willing to really drop incoming mail with bad or missing signatures.

Email is an “ossified” protocol. It should fade away, and be replaced with something else modern and secure like a “federated Signal”.

If that something else allows anyone to send to anyone without permission, it too will be killed by spam.



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