[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of Mail Services] - Re: Mail Relay.

[<aco...@jb...>]

BTW the realying stuff isn't in the RC1.  I figure we'll see how the RC goes and do some testing on relaying before deciding.

We already have explicit configuration for anonymous more or less (AuthenticationRequired).  However, I get what you mean.  Let's go with "no you can't" for now and see what kind of feedback we get.  My take is to be a bit more of a hitler on security than most mail servers.  "Make security easy"

So you ALWAYS check the incoming user domain?  The intent of the feature was to only check the domain of the target.  Meaning that if Anonymous User/SMTP = A, Routing Mail Server = B,  Other Mail Server = C and if A has no account on B but is sending to mail server C then if B is configured with a routing domain group for only domains served by C it will route mails on behalf of anonymous users only to server C.  This involves no checking of the sending user's domain.  Now it might be an interesting twist to check that, but wouldn't that be more of an edge case?  I probably wouldn't allow that config through the installer (only people smart enough to do the admin should be given said 6 ft rope).

I'll check out what you added to the installer before registering an opinion but I'm kind of worried that routing may not be something simple enough to represent at installation time.  Intuitively, it makes sense to me to reserve this for an administration piece (presently XML config hell, later GUI).  For the installer I want to mostly stick to basics so that you can get up and running with normal stuff quickly.  I'm even vacillating on whether or not to stick tools for JAAS login module configuration (BTW JAAS works great) to the installer, presently I say no (but yes for adminstrative piece).  

Next week  I'm going to touch base with Mr. Adminstartion (Charles Crouch) and see whether we can leverage that code (for JBAS) and report back.

-Andy

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