At this point, for mail sending, Gmail does not support DANE, though we do
support STS and TLSRPT.  I imagine DANE is somewhere on their TODO list,
but couldn't give any time frame for that.

It is supported by a bunch of European ISPs, as well as Comcast.

Brandon

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:45 PM Heiko Schlittermann via mailop <
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> Ross Tajvar via mailop <[email protected]> (Do 11 Jul 2019 17:58:36 CEST):
> > However, the mail server I'm using (Mailcow) suggests I add TLSA records
> > for ports that serve SMTP, POP3, and IMAP (as well as HTTPS). I'm
> curious,
> > do any major mail services actually validate these records when receiving
> > mail? Do any major mail clients?
>
> As Jeremy already pointed out, DANE is about receiving, giving the the
> sender
> a chance to check the recipient's server. If Mailcow suggests you to use
> TLSA records, your question is probably about services that would use
> these records to avoid sending mails destined for your domain to the
> wrong server.
>
> I'm not sure if Gmail does, but I *seems* that GMX (a German mail service)
> does checking of my TLSA records. (I can tell, because once I messed up
> these records and messages from @gmx.de to my domains bounced back to
> their GMX senders.)
>
> I'm not sure if GMX can be counted as a major service.
>
> For mail clients this question isn't relevant, if this is meant as
> "MUA", since MUAs normally talk to their submission hosts, and often do
> certificate checking similar to that what HTTPS clients do: compare the
> certificate's CN, and SAN with the hostname they connect to and verify
> the certificate against locally stored trusted CAs.
>
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