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<p>A mail server is only a part of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client%E2%80%93server_model">client-server relationship</a> aimed at exchanging information in the form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email">emails</a>. Exchanging emails requires using specific means (programs and protocols).</p>
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<p>DMS provides you with the server portion, whereas the client can be anything from a terminal via text-based software (eg. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client)">Mutt</a>) to a fully-fledged desktop application (eg. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird">Mozilla Thunderbird</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a>…), to a web interface, etc.</p>
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<p>Unlike the client-side where usually a single program is used to perform retrieval and viewing of emails, the server-side is composed of many specialized components. The mail server is capable of accepting, forwarding, delivering, storing and overall exchanging messages, but each one of those tasks is actually handled by a specific piece of software. All of these "agents" must be integrated with one another for the exchange to take place.</p>
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<p>In scenario <em>A</em> the email leaves Gmail's premises, that email's <em>initial</em> submission is <em>not</em> handled by your DMS instance(MTA); it merely receives the email after it has been relayed by Gmail's MTA. In scenario <em>B</em>, the DMS instance(MTA) handles the submission, prior to relaying.</p>
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<p>In the previous section, three components were outlined. Each one of those is responsible for a specific task when it comes to exchanging emails:</p>
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<p>For a MUA to send an email to an MTA, it needs to establish a connection with that server, then push data packets over a network that both the MUA (client) and the MTA (server) are connected to. The server implements the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol">SMTP</a> protocol, which makes it capable of handling <em>Submission</em>.</p>
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<p>In the case of DMS, the MTA (SMTP server) is Postfix. The MUA (client) may vary, yet its Submission request is performed as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">TCP</a> packets sent over the <em>public</em> internet. This exchange of information may be secured in order to counter eavesdropping.</p>
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<li>It does not enable Implicit TLS Outbound Submission on port 465 by default. One may enable it through simple custom configuration, either as a replacement or (better!) supplementary mean of secure Submission.</li>
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<li>It does not support old MUAs (clients) not supporting TLS encryption on ports 587/465 (those should perform Submission on port 25, more details below). One may relax that constraint through advanced custom configuration, for backwards compatibility.</li>
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<p>A final Outbound Submission setup exists and is akin SMTP+STARTTLS on port 587, but on port 25. That port has historically been reserved specifically for unencrypted (cleartext) mail exchange though, making STARTTLS a bit wrong to use. As is expected by <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321">RFC 5321</a>, DMS uses port 25 for unencrypted Submission in order to support older clients, but most importantly for unencrypted Transfer/Relay between MTAs.</p>
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<li><strong>DMS's default configuration also enables unencrypted (cleartext) on port 25 for Outbound Submission.</strong></li>
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<li>It does not enable Explicit TLS (STARTTLS) on port 25 by default. One may enable it through advanced custom configuration, either as a replacement (bad!) or as a supplementary mean of secure Outbound Submission.</li>
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<li>One may also secure Outbound Submission using advanced encryption scheme, such as DANE/DNSSEC and/or MTA-STS.</li>
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<h4 id="inbound-submission"><a class="toclink" href="#inbound-submission">Inbound Submission</a></h4>
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<p>Granted it's still very difficult enforcing encryption between MTAs (Transfer/Relay) without risking dropping emails (when relayed by MTAs not supporting TLS-encryption), Inbound Submission is to be handled in cleartext on port 25 by default.</p>
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<li><strong>DMS's default configuration enables unencrypted (cleartext) on port 25 for Inbound Submission.</strong></li>
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<li>It does not enable Explicit TLS (STARTTLS) on port 25 by default. One may enable it through advanced custom configuration, either as a replacement (bad!) or as a supplementary mean of secure Inbound Submission.</li>
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<li>One may also secure Inbound Submission using advanced encryption scheme, such as DANE/DNSSEC and/or MTA-STS.</li>
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<p>Overall, DMS's default configuration for SMTP looks like this:</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code> ┏━━━ Outbound Submission ━━━┓
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┌────────────────────┐ ┌┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┐
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Me -- cleartext --> ┤(25) (25)├ --- cleartext ---> ┊ ┊
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Me -- TLS ---> ┤(465) My MTA │ ┊ Third-party MTA ┊
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│ (25)├ <---cleartext ---- ┊ ┊
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└────────────────────┘ └┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┘
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┗━━━━━━━━━━ Inbound Submission ━━━━━━━━━━┛
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<h3 id="retrieval-imap"><a class="toclink" href="#retrieval-imap">Retrieval - IMAP</a></h3>
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<p>A MUA willing to fetch an email from a mail server will most likely communicate with its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP">IMAP</a> server. As with SMTP described earlier, communication will take place in the form of data packets exchanged over a network that both the client and the server are connected to. The IMAP protocol makes the server capable of handling <em>Retrieval</em>.</p>
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<p>In the case of DMS, the IMAP server is Dovecot. The MUA (client) may vary, yet its Retrieval request is performed as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol">TCP</a> packets sent over the <em>public</em> internet. This exchange of information may be secured in order to counter eavesdropping.</p>
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<p>Again, as with SMTP described earlier, the IMAP protocol may be secured with either Implicit TLS (aka. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAPS">IMAPS</a> / IMAP4S) or Explicit TLS (using STARTTLS).</p>
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<p>The best practice as of 2020 is to enforce IMAPS on port 993, rather than IMAP+STARTTLS on port 143 (see <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8314">RFC 8314</a>); yet the latter is usually provided for backwards compatibility.</p>
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<p><strong>DMS's default configuration enables both Implicit and Explicit TLS for Retrievial, on ports 993 and 143 respectively.</strong></p>
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<h3 id="retrieval-pop3"><a class="toclink" href="#retrieval-pop3">Retrieval - POP3</a></h3>
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<p>Similarly to IMAP, the older POP3 protocol may be secured with either Implicit or Explicit TLS.</p>
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<p>The best practice as of 2020 would be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP3S">POP3S</a> on port 995, rather than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP3">POP3</a>+STARTTLS on port 110 (see <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8314">RFC 8314</a>).</p>
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<p><strong>DMS's default configuration disables POP3 altogether.</strong> One should expect MUAs to use TLS-encrypted IMAP for Retrieval.</p>
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<h2 id="how-does-dms-help-with-setting-everything-up"><a class="toclink" href="#how-does-dms-help-with-setting-everything-up">How Does DMS Help With Setting Everything Up?</a></h2>
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<p>As a <em>batteries included</em> container image, DMS provides you with all the required components and a default configuration to run a decent and secure mail server. One may then customize all aspects of its internal components.</p>
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<li>Simple customization is supported through <a href="https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/blob/master/compose.yaml">Docker Compose configuration</a> and the <a href="https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/blob/master/mailserver.env">env-mailserver</a> configuration file.</li>
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<li>Advanced customization is supported through providing "monkey-patching" configuration files and/or <a href="https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/blob/master/Dockerfile">deriving your own image</a> from DMS's upstream, for a complete control over how things run.</li>
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<p>Eventually, it is up to <em>you</em> deciding exactly what kind of transportation/encryption to use and/or enforce, and to customize your instance accordingly (with looser or stricter security). Be also aware that protocols and ports on your server can only go so far with security; third-party MTAs might relay your emails on insecure connections, man-in-the-middle attacks might still prove effective, etc. Advanced counter-measure such as DANE, MTA-STS and/or full body encryption (eg. PGP) should be considered as well for increased confidentiality, but ideally without compromising backwards compatibility so as to not block emails.</p>
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