On 08/06/2020 14:51, Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-dev wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 12:48:22PM +0000, admin--- via Exim-dev wrote:
> 
>> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2594
>>
>> --- Comment #1 from Jeremy Harris <jgh146...@wizmail.org> ---
>> Can you locate a standards document specifying the name that should be 
>> checked
>> against the certificate?
> 
> Yes:  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125#appendix-B.4
> 
> The original reported is right.

No, it's worse.  If you take that RFC 3207 wording strictly:

  -  A SMTP client would probably only want to authenticate an SMTP
      server whose server certificate has a domain name that is the
      domain name that the client thought it was connecting to.

it could mean the domain part of the recipient email address,
pre-MX-lookup.  Thanks to the word "domain".

Or it could mean that, again, but only when there is no MX record
and an A / AAAA is being used... but pre-CNAME.

Or it could mean post-CNAME, because that "client" SMTP agent surely
thought it was connecting to a name that A/AAAA resolved to the IP for
the connect() syscall.


It really is not well specified.

-- 
Cheers,
  Jeremy

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