On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 19:06:16 +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > I don't understand this: why would the STS client do a policy lookup not
> > on the recipient address? I understand that you can have a different
> > nexthop specified in your transport map, but why look that up instead of
> > the recipient address domain?
> 
> Because STS is *transport* policy.  Not end-to-end policy.  Given
> that you expected otherwise, this definitely needs to be explained.
> 
> Just because email is ultimately going to say Gmail, if my nexthop
> relay is some corporate outbound smarthost, the relevant STS policy
> is for that relay, not the destination domain.

OK, got it. But this is going to work only for nexthops / relays
specified as a mail domain (and not as hosts), right?

I am not so sure about the usefulness of this, though. I mean: in case
you are modifying the routing for a mail domain, I would have thought
that you also need to disable the STS check (like you need to disable
certificate pinning when using SSL web proxies).

Or said differently: are you going to enforce TLS encryption to your
outbound smarthosts using STS?

Cheers
David

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