On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 07:29:22PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx via Postfix-users
wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 00:42:20 +1000, Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 09:29:17AM -0400, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > Can the default be decided at build-time (#ifdef), instead of with
> > > > run-time conditional configuration?
> > >
> > > That would result in an incompatible change for systems that are
> > > not explicitly configured to enable TLS.
> >
> > Yes, users of "distro" Postfix packages would see an incompatible
> > change, ... Mind you, some distros might already have made a such
> > change.
>
>
> The "may" default can still be behind a compatibility_level guard, I
> merely wanted to suggest an alternative for the proposed built_with_tls
> flag, as such runtime check turned out not so simple to implement.
I think you're suggesting a compile-time choice along the lines of:
--- a/src/global/mail_params.h
+++ b/src/global/mail_params.h
@@ -1465,9 +1465,16 @@ extern bool var_smtp_tls_enforce_peername;
extern bool var_smtp_tls_wrappermode;
#define VAR_SMTP_TLS_LEVEL "smtp_tls_security_level"
-#define DEF_SMTP_TLS_LEVEL ""
#define VAR_LMTP_TLS_LEVEL "lmtp_tls_security_level"
-#define DEF_LMTP_TLS_LEVEL ""
+#ifdef USE_TLS
+#define DEF_SMTP_TLS_LEVEL "${{$compatibility_level} <level {3.11} ?" \
+ " {none} : {may}}"
+#define DEF_LMTP_TLS_LEVEL "${{$compatibility_level} <level {3.11} ?" \
+ " {none} : {may}}"
+#else
+#define DEF_SMTP_TLS_LEVEL "none"
+#define DEF_LMTP_TLS_LEVEL "none"
+#endif
extern char *var_smtp_tls_level;
#define VAR_SMTP_TLS_SCERT_VD "smtp_tls_scert_verifydepth"
But this then has the side-effect of disabling support for the
deprecated use_tls, enforce_tls and enforce_peername parameters,
so really should part of a larger cleanup to remove all support
for the Postfix 2.2 legacy TLS parameters including tls_per_site.
Removing these at some point before too long is not unreasonable,
the main question is whether 3.11 is the right opportunity, or
whether the deprecation in 3.9 of use_tls and enforce_tls (but
oddly not enforce_peername, I think an oversight) needs to bake
in another release cycle or two?
--
Viktor.
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