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HELO, world

Field notes from the people building email security at Mailprotector. How we move the mail, stop the bad stuff, and keep a few decades of SMTP running without waking anyone up at 3am.

port 25 — session
Postmortem 5 min read

A slow TLS handshake jammed our whole outbound queue

One destination's mail server stopped finishing its TLS handshakes. Because of a timeout we'd set in the wrong place, that was enough to back up delivery for everyone.

Ben Hathaway

Meta 3 min read

HELO, world

Why a company that moves email for a living is starting an engineering blog, and what we plan to put here.

Ben Hathaway

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