TLS-RPT: what it is and why we collect it

TLS-RPT is the reporting half of MTA-STS. Receivers send you a daily JSON report of every connection that succeeded, failed, or fell back to plaintext.

Why you want it

Without TLS-RPT, MTA-STS is "set and pray". With it, you see exactly which senders attempted plaintext and got blocked, which DNS-record fetches failed, and whether your STS policy is stable.

How to enable

One TXT record at _smtp._tls.yourdomain.com containing v=TLSRPTv1; rua=mailto:tls-rpt@yourdomain.com (we give you a unique ingest mailbox per domain).

What we surface

  • Daily TLS-RPT health graph (successful / failed / fell back)
  • Per-sender breakdown (who keeps dialing plaintext)
  • Alerts when failure rate jumps more than 3x baseline