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by boisgerault 1167 days ago
Could you elaborate what BCP is? (I am not familiar with the term)
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BCP is Best Current Practice, which for email includes at least having Forward-confirmed reverse DNS for mailserver hostname (with the same FQDN in EHLO hostname), SPF, DKIM, DMARC.

I'm sure most people here know about DMARC but there are still a lot of mail senders which either have no DMARC record, or send some messages in a way that either DKIM or SPF or even both fail, or have a syntax error in SPD/DKIM/DMARC DNS records.

On top of this it is good to ensure that your servers doesn't generate email backsatter when possible. Send rate limits is a simple but rarely enforced by small servers way to limit amount of spam which can be send if user credentials or web-app hosted on the same server are compromised.