Mail & hosting · mail.syshq.net

The second server behind August SEO.

mail.syshq.net is a working mail server. It sends signed mail, takes inbound mail, and runs the side projects that don't belong on the main stack. The backups live here too.

Host
mail.syshq.net
IPv4
45.32.229.239
IPv6
2001:19f0:8001:6c3:5400:4ff:fe2d:1f82
Mail
Inbound + outbound
Status
OnlineYou're reading this from it.

/ Role

What runs here

01

Outbound

Signed system mail

Form notifications, alerts, and account mail from side projects. No newsletters. No cold blasts.

02

Inbound

Mail comes in, too

MX for syshq.net points at this box, and inbound mail is accepted and delivered. Replying to something it sent? Go ahead. It gets through.

03

Hosting

Backups + side projects

A secondary host for side projects and the like, plus a backup target. Boring on purpose.

/ Authentication

Published in DNS. Check it yourself.

Every record below is live. If a message claims to be from this host and fails these checks, it wasn't.

MX
10 mail.syshq.net

Inbound mail for syshq.net lands on this server.

Accepting
SPF
v=spf1 mx -all

Only the MX host is allowed to send. Anything else hard-fails.

Hard fail
DKIM
mail._domainkey · RSA-2048

Outbound messages are signed. The public key is published under the mail selector.

Signing
DMARC
v=DMARC1; p=quarantine

Mail that fails alignment goes to spam, not the inbox.

Quarantine
rDNS
PTR → mail.syshq.net

Forward-confirmed on both IPv4 and IPv6.

Matched
Receipts any terminal
$ dig +short MX syshq.net
10 mail.syshq.net.
$ dig +short TXT syshq.net | grep spf
"v=spf1 mx -all"
$ dig +short TXT _dmarc.syshq.net
"v=DMARC1; p=quarantine;"
$ dig +short -x 45.32.229.239
mail.syshq.net.