Eric Shubert wrote:
> The todo file has a handfull of nice logging enhancements. Here's another.
> 
> It'd be nice to have some indicator in the log of whether TLS was used 
> on each session or not. This would allow easy verification that TLS is 
> working on each message coming in.
> 
> Thanks Sam.

There's another aspect to this that Aleksander on the QMT list came 
across. He noticed that when spamdyke's doing the TLS encryption, 
there's no longer any indication in the message header that the message 
was encrypted as it was received. When qmail (patched with TLS) accepts 
a message using TLS, it notes that the message was received with 
encryption. Since spamdyke is passing the message in clear text to 
qmail, qmail no longer notes that TLS was used, even though spamdyke is 
dutifully decoding the encrypted session.

The bottom line to this is that there's no practical way to audit that 
TLS is being used, or was used on a given message. I think this is a 
significant shortfall, while more so in some environments than others.

Would it be possible for spamdyke to add a Received-spamdyke header of 
some sort that would indicate whether or not TLS was used? I imagine 
that other relevant information about spamdyke could be included, but I 
think Sam would have better ideas about this than I do.

Thanks again Sam.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

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