Re: ASSP security with Postfix?

From: Noel Jones (no email)
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 08:32:03 EDT

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    At 01:40 AM 5/24/2007, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
    >Noel Jones wrote:
    >>At 03:12 PM 5/23/2007, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
    >>>Noel Jones wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html
    >>>>http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html
    >>>So ignoramuses like me would translate those params as
    >>>"before_queue_filter" and "after_queue_filter"?
    >>>
    >>>By using the before queue filter - does that mean that ASSP
    >>>services such as greylisting or SMTP banner delay would be
    >>>unavailable and require implementing with Postfix policies?
    >>
    >>Unless ASSP supports the XFORWARD extensions, the only way it will
    >>work fully is as a proxy in front of postfix.
    >To be clear - if XFORWARD is supported - would those features
    >(greylist, banner delay, etc.) still be effective? Or since Postfix
    >is already communicating with the remote client are these services -
    >particularly banner delay - unusable?

    If XCLIENT is supported, all those features /should/ work when using
    ASSP as a smtpd_proxy_filter. I misspoke earlier - XCLIENT is the
    proper tool for delegating decisions based on client connection
    information in a pre-queue filter, XFORWARD is for consistent logging
    information and intended for an after-queue filter.
    http://www.postfix.org/XCLIENT_README.html
    http://www.postfix.org/XFORWARD_README.html

    The issue is that without XCLIENT support, the next-hop in any proxy
    chain sees all connections as coming from localhost, making it
    impossible for the next-hop to distinguish connections from each other.

    -- 
    Noel Jones 
    

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