Postfix SMTP Authentication - On The Secure Port Only
So let's say your users are going away for holidays but need to use your mailserver to relay mail from outside the organisation... Let's set up SMTP authentication for the secure port only and allow access to this from outside your network.
[yourserver = server hostname]
[your-ip = your server's IP address]
cd /etc/postfix
vi main.cf
Paste under mynetworks:
####### smtp auth smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus local_recipient_maps = smtpd_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom ########
Then:
vi master.cf
Paste under smtp:
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
Check the smtpd.conf file and amend it:
locate smtpd.conf
vi /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
Delete the contents of the file and paste into it:
pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login
To check the SASL available mechanisms run:
saslauthd -V
Set SASL authentication to start at system boot:
chkconfig --levels 235 saslauthd on
Set up the encryption keys:
mkdir /etc/postfix/ssl
cd ssl/
openssl genrsa -des3
-rand /etc/hosts -out smtpd.key 1024
chmod 600 smtpd.key
openssl req -new -key
smtpd.key -out smtpd.csr
openssl x509 -req -days
3650 -in smtpd.csr -signkey smtpd.key -out smtpd.crt
openssl rsa -in smtpd.key
-out smtpd.key.unencrypted
mv -f
smtpd.key.unencrypted smtpd.key
openssl req -new -x509
-extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 3650
Set up the client certificate for importing into Internet Explorer (for Outlook) / Thunderbird (this will suppress warnings about using a self signed certificate):
openssl pkcs12 -export -in smtpd.crt -inkey smtpd.key -out OutlookSMTP.p12
Reload the config:
postfix reload
Finally insert a relevant iptables rule to access from outside using your firewall script:
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -p tcp -s $UNIVERSE -d $EXTIP --destination-port 465 -j ACCEPT
Or if your mail server is behind a firewall (Assuming the LAN address of your server is 10.10.1.4), add these rules on your firewall:
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 465 -d 10.10.1.4 -o $INTIF -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -o $EXTIF -p tcp --sport 465 -s 10.10.1.4 -i $INTIF -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXTIF -p tcp -d $EXTIP2 --dport 465 -j DNAT --to 10.10.1.4:465
Done!
Testing
Check if the port is listening:
netstat -ntpl | grep master
tcp
0
0 127.0.0.1:10025
0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 8366/master
tcp
0
0
0.0.0.0:465
0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 8366/master
tcp
0
0
0.0.0.0:25
0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 8366/master
Test if TLS and AUTH is working:
telnet localhost 465
[root@ls1 postfix]#
telnet localhost 465
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to
localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 yourserver ESMTP
Postfix
ehlo me
250-yourserver
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250 8BITMIME
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
[root@ls1 postfix]#
To test further create an account and attain the Base64 Mime password with mmencode or the following perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use MIME::Base64;
if ( $#ARGV !=1) {
die "Usage: encode_sasl_plain.pl <username> <password>n";
}
print encode_base64("$ARGV[0]?$ARGV[0]?$ARGV[1]");
exit 0;
Generate the Mime password:
encode_sasl_plain.pl <username> <password>
Y2FtZXJvbnMAY2FtZXJvbnMAdGVzdGluZzA4
telnet localhost 465
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 yourserver ESMTP Postfix
ehlo me
250-yourserver
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
AUTH PLAIN Y2FtZXJvbnMAY2FtZXJvbnMAdGVzdGluZzA4
235 2.0.0 Authentication successful
**If the authentication is not successful, you may have to change the MECH value in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd and /etc/init.d/saslauthd.
Possible values are listed with the command
saslauthd -V
and restart saslauthd:
/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart
Test the connection from outside:
telnet yourserver 465
cameron@cs:~$ telnet yourserver 465
Trying your-ip...
Connected to yourserver.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 yourserver ESMTP
Postfix
ehlo me
250-yourserver
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
AUTH PLAIN
Y2FtZXJvbnMAY2FtZXJvbnMAdGVzdGluZzA4
235 2.0.0 Authentication
successful
To test further, set up an account in Evolution / Thunderbird / Outlook and test the SMTP with the username and password you set up earlier.
Remember that because you are using a self signed certifcate, your email client will prompt you each time about an untrusted certificate so you can use the client certificate you created to suppress these warnings.
For Thunderbird, if you are really lazy you can even install this addon.
