I read #487 and i like the direction of work that's taking, but i wonder whether there is a simpler step chatmail can take to get some of the network resiliency benefits of onion routing without having to re-architect message delivery.
onionmx describes how to route mail from normal (non-onion) domains over onion services, in a way that has been working for a few dozen providers for many years.
Even simpler, it seems, would be to add an XXX.onion MX record, and XXX.onion SRV records for _submission._tcp and _imap._tcp .
This still leaves in place the dependency on DNS and DKIM, but it enables chatmail servers and clients to avoid network-layer blocking for all communications as long as they can reach Tor.