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Will authenticated relay as everybody in the world uses it (RFC4954) be Implemented on SFOSv18.

Peter Geremia

I was waiting and waiting for v18 and it came out and I see no reference to RFC4945 support for smtp auth relay.

Is this coming in a point release?  Will this ever be there?  It is such a pain to have to pass through users directly to my mail server rather than having Firewall XG protect.

Does anyone have an answer?



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  • 0 in reply to alda

    I cannot comment on the roadmap of this feature but it is not as easy to implement as you point it out, because there are multi factors to deal with.

    First of all: the easy part would be to simply activate authenticated relay, as exim already support this. But how to deal with the authentication?

    Exim could use an own authentication method, therefore simply forward the authentication to the mail server. That would break a lot of stuff. 

    So you would like to use the in-product authentication. 

    This lead to the next limitation, would you like the same implementation as UTM, aua is take over and deal with the authentication? 

    This could lead to an open authentication method on SMTP and killing multiple users within your AD by locking them. 

    So you would have to implement a method to split those authentication into external and internal and deal with them separately. 

    You would have to think about an implementation method only for external or only for internal. 

     

    Another factor would be the implementation of a cache? Useful? Could be. 

    This needs to be all in the Webadmin, correct? 

     

    As mentioned earlier, i am not a product manager, therefor not in position to comment on the roadmap. From my personal point of view, this feature does not have a high return in investment, as i personally think, it is not a good implementation anyways. 

  • +1 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Hello LuCar,

    please read (or your product managers) again what  wrote:

    We want to know when it will be included in the v18 release.  I am not upgrading until it is there.

    And I don't think that's just the case. I think you (and your product managers) already know that you have a problem. Users expect that XG Firewall will have the same features as UTM v9. As Sophos has promised for 5 years ....

    Regards

    alda

    [:@]

  • +2 in reply to alda

    I will forward this feedback to the PM Team. 

  • +1 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Hi all,

     

    This capability is under consideration and is tracked with tracking ID NC-32251

    At this time there is no committed version for this capability,

    Regards,

    Stuart Hatto