On Fri, 2026-09-04 at 18:34 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 5:59 PM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > But, I think Fedora would > > probably have to provide the ability to create an application password > > to authenticate to an SMTP server, because it shouldn't be > > unauthenticated, and Fedora's MFA might be a bit troublesome with it. > > Kerberos or OAuth 2.0 authentication is possible > (depending on lot's of "maybe"s), but running a > full mail server today on today's Internet, with > various anti-spoofing and UCE blocking by > other organizations. is not an easy task (which > is partially why many organizations outsource > that functionality to someone else).
Fedora clearly already runs a mail server given they need to receive and process mailing lists ? And adding an authenticated only SMTP gateway (with strong app passwords as well as krb and whatever other method is already supported in postfix) would probably not be a huge change, but it is a change and would require "some" maintenance. -- Simo Sorce Distinguished Engineer RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
