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MTA-STS policy does not list your mail servers

CODE RED

MTASTS · Critical · costs 40 points · RFC 8461 section 4.1

What it means

Your policy omits the offending value, which is a live MX host for example.com. Under enforce. Senders refuse to deliver to a host the policy does not cover, this configuration rejects your own inbound mail.

How to fix it

Add an mx: line for every host in your MX records. A wildcard may only replace the leftmost label, e.g. mx: *.mail.example.com

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the MTASTS test or the full checkup, which examines every record at once.

Understand it properly

This page covers one condition. For the whole picture, MTA-STS, defined, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against RFC 8461 section 4.1. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other MTASTS conditions

MTASTS_MX_MISMATCH

Every fix on this site is yours to implement. If you would rather someone did it, I take this work directly.