What prevents malicious servers from spoofing mail transfer agents and/or mail delivery agents?

An email system typically consists of multiple agents:

Mail user agent (MUA)
Mail submission agent (MSA)
Mail tranfer agent (MTA)
Mail delivery agent (MDA)

Evidently the ‘middlemen’ of this system are a spoofing risk.
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