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Deploy a new, sender-rewriting, mail exchanger

TPA-RFC-44 emergency procedures (#40981 (closed)) was adopted, let's move on with the next step:

Configure new "mail exchanger" (MX) server(s) with TLS certificates signed by a public CA, most likely Let's Encrypt for incoming mail, replacing that part of eugeni.

This would take care of forwarding mail to other services (e.g. mailing lists) but also end-users.

To work around reputation problems caused by SPF records (below), deploy a Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) with postsrsd (packaged in Debian) and postforward (not packaged in Debian, but zero-dependency Golang program).

Having it on a separate mail exchanger will make it easier to swap in and out of the infrastructure if problems would occur.

The mail exchangers should also sign outgoing mail with DKIM.

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