On 13.03.2024 at 12:28 L. Mark Stone via mailop wrote:
> FWIW, our view is that poor encryption can be worse than no encryption, as it 
> can give the participants a false sense of security.  This seems like a good 
> move to us.
> We have configured Postfix in our Zimbra MTA servers to do only TLS 1.2/1.3, 
> and fall back to unencrypted if a TLS connection can't be negotiated (per RFC 
> 2487).

As long as STARTTLS is not enforced, I recommend against disabling TLS 1.0 and 
1.1 on MX hosts. It does not improve, but actually worsens security.
Sending MTAs with a modern crypto stack do not benefit from disabling TLS 1.0 
and 1.1 on the receiving MTA. They use TLS 1.2 or 1.3 either way and I know of 
no downgrade attack to force them to use a lower protocol version.
Sending MTAs which do not support modern crypto on the other hand are going to 
fall back to a unencrypted connection as soon as you disable older cipher 
suites. This allows any, even passive MITM to read and/or modify the messages. 
A claim that TLS 1.0 or 1.1 would be equally unsafe as completely unencrypted 
communications is a cliche and not based on facts.

--
BR Oliver
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