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Jan Schaumann

Google and Microsoft together handle over 60% of the Top 1M domains' mails!

Many other domains use service provides such as Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, or Cisco / IronPort, but those may of course only sit in front of Google and Microsoft's mail servers as well.

A pie chart showing

Google: 41.1%
Microsoft: 19.6%
Yandex: 4.1%
Proofpoint: 3.3%
Mimecast: 2.7%
Tencent QQ: 2.0%
Namecheap: 1.9%
GoDaddy: 1.6%
Barracuda Networks: 1.2%
Zoho: 1.1%
Amazon AWS: 1.0%
Rackspace: 0.9%
Cisco IronPort Hosted MX: 0.8%
VK / Mail.ru Group: 0.7%
OVH: 0.7%
SiteGround: 0.7%
Beget LLC: 0.6%
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Jan Schaumann replied to Jan

So all in all, the answer to the question of who can read your email pretty much boils down to -- yep -- "Google and Microsoft".

Even if your domain doesn't use one of their mail servers, chances are that whoever you are sending mail _to_ does.

Jan Schaumann replied to Jan

Now these companies are probably doing a much better job running and securing your mail than you would, and outsourcing often makes good sense.

But still, this is another example of increasing centralization: our businesses and personal online lives are concentrated in the hands of just a few companies.

Jan Schaumann replied to Jan

Alright, that's all for today. Gotta go and fix my postfix DMARC setup and block a bunch of spammers or something.

And if you don't like social media threads or want to share this outside of Mastodon, here's all of the above in a single blog post:

netmeister.org/blog/mx-diversi

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