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@oliversampson - Something to consider: There are some people, myself included, whose circumstances are such that being tracked continuously is a feature, not a bug. My personal details, including biometric data, was stolen from the US government in the OPM hack. My personal threat model includes having my fingerprints planted at a crime scene. One of the only defenses I might be able to present is evidence that I was somewhere else. I deliberately turn off privacy features.

@DMEdwards Whoa. That is certainly quite the edge case, and I'm sorry that you have that type of thing to consider.

I will keep that in mind next time I get judgemental with a gmail user.

@oliversampson - Life has some strange twists and turns, for sure. :)

That said, when I am a hiring manager, I think a person's email domain says something about them. For example, my estimation of a security professional rises a little bit when I see they are using proton mail. I die a little inside when I see a hotmail address for any IT professional. What I really want to see is a custom domain name. I mean, it's not like it costs a lot to register a domain and attach it to an email service.

@DMEdwards @oliversampson I use a custom domIn for email myself... Is there a cold war on indie email by the Bugs?

But sometimes it is blocked by orgs it seems (mailtester shoes no blocks but for short periods of time some report my mail gets blacl-holed).

@john @oliversampson - Sorry for the delay in responding, I had a comms blackout for a while.

I absolutely think there's an informal system in place to send email from self-hosted exchanges to /dev/null, even when dmarc and dkim are fully-configured. I have a couple of domains attached to a Google Workspace as well as a few using AWS Simple Email Service (SES). I haven't noticed any dropped emails resulting from those. I'm sure Azure has a similar thing.