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Re: home server for email box



On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 11:43:35PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2023-03-11 05:13:36 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> > I just checked the headers of this mail as received from the list. I was a
> > bit surprised (pleasantly) to see debian is using IPv6 mail services.
> > 
> > The headers show my dual stack edge router/mailer used an IPv6 connection to
> > Bendel rather than an IPv4 connection.
> > 
> > Received: from edge.bronzemail.com (2403-5800-c000-1b7-f3d4-d970-ca28-bf4f.ip6.aussiebb.net [IPv6:2403:5800:c000:1b7:f3d4:d970:ca28:bf4f])
> > 	(using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)
> > 	 key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256)
> > 	(Client did not present a certificate)
> > 	by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79E372070F
> > 	for <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:04:57 +0000 (UTC)
> > 
> > (Now to figure out why 'client did not present a certificate'. The
> > edge router/mailer has a letsencrypt certificate, so I guess I'll
> > have to tweak postfix a bit.)
> 
> Possibly due to IPv6, which yields the
> 2403-5800-c000-1b7-f3d4-d970-ca28-bf4f.ip6.aussiebb.net
> hostname, which is different from IPv4?
> 
> But what's the point of a certificate in this particular case
> (the server bendel.debian.org does not need to authenticate
> the client)?

It is just part of the TLS protocol. You might configure your mail
server to present a certificate to its peers. The usual TLS stuff,
just wrapping SMTP.

Cheers
-- 
t

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