Sv: Force clients to use pgp encryption when sending email?

Sebastian Nielsen sebastian at sebbe.eu
Wed Dec 8 08:17:54 UTC 2021


Another solution is to use for example Ciphermail to automatically encrypt mail server-side. In this way you don't need to reject non-encrypted mail, you can just make sure it gets encrypted before it leaves premises.

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Från: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org> För Austin Witmer
Skickat: den 8 december 2021 07:15
Till: dovecot at ptld.com; dovecot at dovecot.org
Ämne: Re: Force clients to use pgp encryption when sending email?

Thanks for that info! It’s just what I needed!

> On Dec 7, 2021, at 8:35 PM, dovecot at ptld.com wrote:
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>> Basically I want the server to check if the message being sent is encrypted with OpenGPG and either proceed or reject the message based on that criteria.
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> Postfix is your submission service so i think best to look that direction. If there is a header you can check for (if the header exist then allow sending) then postfix has header checks regexp/pcre that would be simple enough to setup.
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> On the more complex side, postfix also supports policy servers you can write as a script (php, perl, python, etc) or you can go full on milter.
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> http://www.postfix.org/header_checks.5.html
> http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#non_smtpd_milters




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