[jira] [Commented] (JAMES-4171) Submission only server

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Jean Helou commented on JAMES-4171:
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Interesting, it means that the default configuration results in DSN sent by james for unauthenticated users. I was unaware of this particular behavior, never thought to actually check it.
It means I could impersonate anyone and flood their inbox with DSNs by pretending to be someone I'm not trying to relay through a james instance. 

instead of changing the <auth> section, shouldn't we create a handler, applied by default which applies a sane behavior by default and can be configured to be even stricter ? 
By sane behavior by default I mean reject non-authenticated users trying to relay to non local recipients at the SMTP layer.  
The handler would have a flag to completely disallow unauthenticated traffic. 

People who want to do custom risky stuff would explicitly disable this handler and use mailetcontainer to do their stuff

> Submission only server
> ----------------------
>
>                 Key: JAMES-4171
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-4171
>             Project: James Server
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SMTPServer
>            Reporter: Benoit Tellier
>            Priority: Major
>          Time Spent: 0.5h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> h3. Context 
> I end up having to provide a submission only server for one of my customer.
> Problem: James bundles together the MX and submission role thus always accept email of remote users addressed to local users.
> This unorthodox behaviour is not a problem when combining both roles (though surprising!) however not being able to say "only authenticated users here" prevents implementing the aformentionned use case
> h3. Proposal
> Add auth.required configuration option in SMTP
> If true, then discard unauthenticated senders.
> This shall be the documented + recommended value however for retro-compatibility I propose to keep the legacy value as a default value.



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