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by rnhmjoj 399 days ago
> I have never heard of any SMTP server doing TLS client certificate authentication. I'm pretty sure there's no standard for that, so it can't be a requirement for all incoming email.

> I suspect you might see delivery failures if you start requesting TLS client cert authentication from all SMTP clients.

Thanks, this aligns with my understanding of things. So, this issue is probably a big nothingburger.