[pfx] Re: feasibility of REQUIRETLS, *_tls_security_level > may

Wietse Venema via Postfix-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.postfix.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Curtis Villamizar via Postfix-users:
> How feasible (or infeasible) is it today to configure manditory TLS
> encryption on a public facing server?  Are there any stats on the
> percentage of mail servers that don't support TLS and the percentage
> of known large volume mail servers that don't support TLS (I suspect
> zero on the latter)?

There are two levels of outbound TLS enforcement:

- Unauthenticated TLS (just piss off the NSA etc.) - likely works.

- Authenticated TLS (actual security) - not by a long shot.

Postfix 3.11 introduces TLS status logging; if you make *your* MTA's
outbound TLS (and REQUIRETLS) opportunistic, the Postfix SMTP client
will log what level of security is possible.

Postfix REQUIRETLS_README has recommendations to use a policy plugin
to enforce secure TLS for the few domains that actually support it,
and to leave enforcement opportunistic for all oher destinations.

	Wietse
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