Sebastian Nielsen wrote:
> Yes.
> Its just a draft.

Everything starts with a draft.

> Which certificate should the server use for the encrypted transaction, even if
> we use SNI?
> emailservice1.com or emailservice2.com?

The recipient domain would be used with SNI.

> and why there is a need to use the MX identity to tie
> the certificate to the server.

To protect against MX spoofing.

> To protect against modified MX data, DNSSEC has
> to be used instead.

Time will tell how trustworthy and secure real-world DNSSEC really is...

I guess discussing all this in detail is not appropriate on this mailing list.

Still I can imagine that SNI support in postfix could be useful for implementing
special TLS usage policies even if it does not scale to millions of certs.

Ciao, Michael.

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- From: Michael Ströder
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:51 AM
> To: Sebastian Nielsen ; postfix-users@postfix.org
> Subject: Re: postfix and multiple TLS certificates (SNI support?) [Signed]
> 
> Sebastian Nielsen wrote:
>> The certificate is normally validated against the MX name, not recipient 
>> domain.
> 
> Did you read the referenced I-D before replying?
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-friedl-uta-smtp-mta-certs-00#section-4.1.4.1
> 
> Ciao, Michael.
> 
>> "Michael Ströder" <mich...@stroeder.com> skrev: (15 december 2015 10:12:56 
>> CET)
>>> Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>>>> So, we've managed to hold off on offering SNI support for a decade
>>>> since TLS was integrated into Postfix 2.2.  I just wanted to see
>>>> whether anyone still wanted it in Postfix, but perhaps if they
>>>> really did they've moved on to other solutions.
>>>
>>> SNI is a prerequisite for implementing something like [1] if a host is
>>> MX for
>>> more than one recipient domain.
>>>
>>> Ciao, Michael.
>>>
>>> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-friedl-uta-smtp-mta-certs
> 


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