Not a direct solution to your issue, but I would recommend avoiding MailChannels and using some other service like Amazon SES, Sendgrid, Postmark, etc.
There are a lot of security implications and their responses to the situation have been very undesirable. Further reading:
Ah good to see im not alone. Also experiencing this issue here. And looking for alternatives. I assume there is no SMTP package out there which would be usable on worker side?