B
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6%
6% -- mta sts failure mode share expired cert for Top-1M MTA-STS deployments (2026)
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6%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
URIports
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Tier B
https://dmarcguard.io/blog/mta-sts-example/ ↗
Source Article
MTA-STS Example: Working Policy File & DNS Record [2026] | DMARCguard
MTA-STS Example: A Working Policy File and DNS Record (RFC 8461)
MTA-STS adoption sits at 0.3% —
15,997 of 5,499,028 domains scanned by
DMARCguard’s first-party study. The blocker is rarely the protocol; it is
the absence of a copy-pasteable example. Below are two artefacts you can
publish today for…
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URIports
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Failure-mode quick reference sourced from URIports' top-1M survey
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Top-1M MTA-STS deployments: 6% mta sts failure mode share expired cert. Source: URIports (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mta-sts-expired-cert-failure-2026
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