Why You Need Help with Email Security - Setup MTA-STS
What is the Problem with Email Security?
When you send an email, you want it to be secure—meaning private and only readable by the intended recipient. A key part of this security involves a special file called mta-sts.txt, which tells other email servers how to securely connect to yours. This file should be located in a specific spot on your website (.well-known/mta-sts.txt) to ensure emails are encrypted in transit and safe from tampering.
Why is This Hard for Businesses?
- Conflicts with Website Hosting: Since your website service provider probably doesn't care about email, they probably don't support hosting this special email file.
- Technical Complexity:
- SSL/TLS Certificates: You need a secure connection to host this file, which means managing certificates that can be tricky to set up correctly.
- Subdomains: If your business uses different subdomains, each one needs to be correctly configured, adding more complexity.
- Constant Availability: The file has to be accessible around the clock from anywhere in the world, which requires robust server setup.
- Security Risks:
- If the file isn't set up right, your emails won't be secured, or may not even reach its destination.
- Resource Intensive:
- Smaller businesses might not have the staff or time to manage this, leading to potential security gaps or operational inefficiencies.
How Does Elate Solve This for You?
Elate offers software (and support) to solve this for you:
- Easy Setup: You don't need to worry about web servers, certificates, or DNS settings. Elate does all of this for you.
- Always Compliant: Elate ensures your email security policies are up to date and follow best practices without you lifting a finger.
- Reliable Access: With servers around the globe, your MTA-STS file is always online and accessible, ensuring your emails are delivered securely.
- Automatic Updates: Elate keeps everything current, so you don't have to monitor or update anything manually.
- Enhanced Security: By managing this for you, Elate reduces the chance of mistakes that could leave your emails vulnerable.
- Cost-Effective: Instead of spending on infrastructure and staff to manage this, you get a professional service for a fraction of the cost.
Real Benefits for Real Businesses
For example, a company that struggled with email delivery due to poor MTA-STS setup saw:
- A significant drop in email errors.
- No more downtime for their email security file.
- Their IT team could now work on other important projects.
Conclusion
Securing your emails with MTA-STS is crucial but can be overwhelming to manage on your own. Elate's solution simplifies this process, making sure your business's email communications are secure without draining your resources. If you want peace of mind and to focus on your business rather than email security, consider partnering with Elate.
The MTA-STS policy file is a plain-text MTA-STS configuration file that is hosted on a domain’s web server under an HTTPS URL: It defines rules for establishing secure connections between mail servers, enforcing TLS encryption, and specifying actions to take if a secure connection cannot be established.
Let us handle this little detail for you: https://mta-sts.<domain>//.well-known/mta-sts.txt
