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SECURITY-1497: Default smtpd_tls_security_level to none #6

Closed billglick closed 1 year ago

billglick commented 1 year ago

See https://jira.ncsa.illinois.edu/browse/SECURITY-1497

This is a followup to #5 which optionally allows hosts within a cluster to relay SMTP traffic. Apparently the default settings for smtpd_tls_security_level is to use may, which turns on 'Opportunistic TLS'. See https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_tls_security_level That ends up enabling TLS with generic certificates which would not be setup on a server. So in general we want to set smtpd_tls_security_level to none disabling TLS. If TLS is needed, then it can be manually set.

This is being tested on control-test-rhel84b.