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Re: [ietf-smtp] own mail server: DNS / static IP / no bad reputation?

Claus Assmann <ietf-smtp@esmtp.org> Mon, 12 October 2020 07:34 UTC

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John R Levine wrote:
> The place I use is called Tektonic, http://tektonic.net/

Thanks, unfortunately they don't support the OS I'm using.
But now that you wrote about "VPS" I know what to look for
(not simply "hosting" - that showed mostly "web hosting")

> (mostly) transparent outbound mail filtering so their reputation seems

If STARTTLS is used, they shouldn't be able to do it, unless they
mess with SMTP (or much worse: with TLS), right?

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