Re: Removal or obfuscation of mail_name

2017-11-07 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Nov 2017, at 14:26 (-0500), J Doe wrote: Is there any third-party servers or tools in the e-mail ecosystem that would depend on this being “Postfix” ? Nothing *SHOULD* depend on any particular content in the text part of any SMTP response except EHLO. As Viktor said, it's generally usele

Re: Removal or obfuscation of mail_name

2017-11-06 Thread J Doe
Hi Victor, >> I was wondering (and I know the gains would be minor given that this >> falls into security through obscurity), is there anything to gain by >> either removing this or specifying something false ? > > There is nothing to be gained by pretending your server is not running > Postfix.

Re: Removal or obfuscation of mail_name

2017-11-06 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Nov 6, 2017, at 2:26 PM, J Doe wrote: > > I was reading about the mail_name parameter in main.cf. > > I was wondering (and I know the gains would be minor given that this > falls into security through obscurity), is there anything to gain by > either removing this or specifying something

Removal or obfuscation of mail_name

2017-11-06 Thread J Doe
Hello, I was reading about the mail_name parameter in main.cf. I was wondering (and I know the gains would be minor given that this falls into security through obscurity), is there anything to gain by either removing this or specifying something false ? Is there any third-party servers or tool