if the server does not have tls then mta-sts does not help much either?

edit: I actually read the spec, and apparently the listing of allowed servers is a side aspect of the spec, the main meat is opting in to tls overall; that was not immediately obvious from the article. In that context your question makes more sense. To answer more comprehensively, I don't see why similar mechanism that functions well with HTTP would not work here; that the server would send STS policy to the client after connection which the client then caches and consults on subsequent connections. This is how HSTS works.