TLS configuration for postfix

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TLS configuration for postfix

1. mkdir -p /etc/postfix/ssl
2. Generate self-signed certificate using:

   openssl req -new -x509 -days 999 -nodes -out postfix.pem -keyout postfix.pem

3. chown postfix:postfix postfix.pem
4. chmod 400 postfix.pem
5. Add following lines to /etc/postfix/main.cf

   smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/postfix.pem
   smtpd_tls_key_file = $smtpd_tls_cert_file
   smtpd_tls_security_level = may

6. Add following lines after commented smtps line in /etc/postfix/master.cf

   smtps   inet n   -   n   - - smtpd
   -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
   -o smtpd_reject_unlisted_sender=yes
   -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
   -o broken_sasl_auth_clients=yes

7. service postfix restart

Note that if smtp auth is enabled, then disabling plaintext auth over nonencrypted channels using:

      smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous, noplaintext
      smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous

is causing postfix to not work. Hence we depend on user to prefer TLS over unecrypted channel for plaintext authentication.

Steps learned from http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html