>Incompetence will show up consistently and therefore can be detected by
>a considerably simpler mechanism: a testing site, like Qualys SSL Labs.
>I see that there is a checktls.com that does exactly this. Incompetent
>email operators will probably not implement reporting anyway.
>
>Reporting is, however, useful for detecting TLS breakages that don't
>consistently show up, which are much more likely to be caused by, as you
>put it, "evil".

Maybe, maybe not.  If you have several MTAs behind a load balancer, or
geographically distributed MTAs with the usual DNS tricks to point
people at the closest host, and one is misconfigured, the symptom
would be flakiness. A one-off test like Qualys does would likely
to hit one of the good ones.

R's,
John

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