ottoka edited a comment on pull request #750:
URL: https://github.com/apache/james-project/pull/750#issuecomment-971434219


   > Question: Is client authentication also applied upon STARTTLS or is it 
omly applies to plain TLS?
   
   The point is that the TLS negotiation will fail and prevent the connection 
if the client provides an unknown/invalid certificate, or none at all (in need 
mode, required=true). So you could use it with StartTLS as well if that is what 
you want to happen. Admittedly it makes more sense in a private mail network 
where you can use straight SMTPS on port 465 from the start.
   
   (There is no good use right now for the optional client auth cases, i.e. 
required=false or skipping StartTLS. Maybe a future extension could somehow 
make the client certificate chain available to matchers and mailets, so they 
can e.g. allow relaying only on connections with trusted client certificates.)


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