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How relay works: security, encryption, deliverability, reputation, privacy, reliability, sending, receiving, domains, webhooks, and message statuses.

Data privacy

Where relay runs, what relays stores and for how long, and what never happens to your data

Deliverability

How relay gets your messages into the inbox, and what every SMTP reply means

Managed domains and DNS

The built-in nameserver, managed sender domains, and verifying delegated domains

Encryption

How relay encrypts messages in transit and protects signers key material at rest

Message statuses

The complete state machines for outgoing and incoming messages, with every transition

Receiving

How the relay MX server accepts inbound mail and hands it to your webhooks

Reliability

Queued delivery, transmission records, and retry schedules

Sender reputation

How relay builds per-domain reputation and turns mailbox-provider reports into action

Security

How relay protects your account, credentials, signing keys, and webhook deliveries

Sending

The relay SMTP interface, every acceptance rule, and the delivery pipeline

Webhooks

Standard Webhooks deliveries with Ed25519 signatures, verification code, and the retry schedule

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