upstream-tls-verify: Verified TLS to an inbound domain's upstream

Owner, 2026-10-18: "Оба предложения делаем"; the mockup is c10cd78. The
security audit's M7: Required is Postfix's encrypt level, which checks no
certificate - it keeps the mail from a listener, not from one who answers
in the upstream's place.

- A fourth TLS mode, Verified, stored as Postfix's level secure (migration
  0014 rebuilds inbound_transports with the wider CHECK; schema 14) and
  written to the TLS policy map like the others. Postfix matches the
  certificate against the next hop's name (smtp_tls_secure_cert_match =
  nexthop, dot-nexthop, the default; postconf(5)), so Verified is refused
  for an upstream given by address (checkSecureHost).
- Postfix's SMTP client trusts Debian's ca-certificates bundle
  (smtp_tls_CAfile): Postfix trusts none by default (DEF_SMTP_TLS_CA_FILE
  "", DEF_TLS_APPEND_DEF_CA 0). The levels may and encrypt only log the
  verdict, so mail to recipients' MX is unchanged.
- The page: the select's fourth option, a help line under it, the lead
  "over verified TLS", the list's tag "verified"; Help word for word with
  the mockup; guide § Inbound relay, with a posttls-finger command to try
  an upstream first.

Tests: TestVerifiedTLSNeedsTheUpstreamsName, TestRenderInboundMapsSecure,
TestUpstreamTLSModeSecure; schema tests at 14. e2e
inbound_upstream_verified_tls: an address refused, a name saved as
"[sink]:25 secure" in tls_policy, the page says verified, the CA file set
and present, and posttls-finger -l secure with it calls the stand's
self-signed port 25 "Untrusted" (the stand has no TLS upstream). make e2e
(65 passed) and go vet + go test (26 packages) on the test server for this
tree. Tried against the live upstream from the 2.14.5 container:
mc-ent.mixfed.ru gives "Verified TLS connection established".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ var inboundTopics = []HelpTopic{
Rich("An optional backup-MX or forwarder, switched on in the server's ", Code(".env"), "; the Inbound menu exists only then. Postfix accepts mail on port 25 for the listed domains only and hands each message on to that domain's upstream; there are no mailboxes. For each domain publish the MX record its page shows, and keep a primary MX the domain already has if this is a backup. The MX tag is green when at least one MX of the domain points at this server, and a domain accepts no mail until an upstream is saved on its page. Adding and deleting domains is for the global role."),
}},
{ID: HelpUpstream, Title: "Upstream", Body: []Text{
Plain("The upstream is the server that actually holds the mailboxes. Give its host and port — used exactly as written, with no MX lookup — and choose the TLS for the hop to it: Opportunistic uses TLS when the upstream offers it and otherwise sends in the clear; Required sends only over TLS, and the mail waits in the queue while the upstream does not offer it or the TLS handshake fails - an upstream that answers STARTTLS with a permanent error bounces it. Neither checks the upstream's certificate: TLS here keeps the mail from whoever only listens on the way, not from one who answers in the upstream's place. Off never uses TLS. While the upstream does not answer, Postfix keeps the mail and retries as for any other mail."),
Plain("The upstream is the server that actually holds the mailboxes. Give its host and port — used exactly as written, with no MX lookup — and choose the TLS for the hop to it: Opportunistic uses TLS when the upstream offers it and otherwise sends in the clear; Required sends only over TLS, and the mail waits in the queue while the upstream does not offer it or the TLS handshake fails - an upstream that answers STARTTLS with a permanent error bounces it. Neither checks the upstream's certificate: TLS here keeps the mail from whoever only listens on the way, not from one who answers in the upstream's place. Verified is Required with that check too: the upstream's certificate has to be issued by a trusted authority for the host given here, so the host is given by name, not by address, and the mail waits in the queue while the check fails - a certificate for another name, or one the upstream signed itself, included. Off never uses TLS. While the upstream does not answer, Postfix keeps the mail and retries as for any other mail."),
}},
{ID: HelpRecipients, Title: "Valid recipients", Body: []Text{
Plain("Choose whom this domain accepts. Listed addresses only: the relay accepts exactly the addresses you list, one per line or comma-separated, and refuses any other while the sender is still connected, so it never has to send a bounce for them. Any recipient: everything at the domain is accepted and passed on, and an address the upstream then rejects comes back as a bounce from this server to a sender who is often forged — backscatter. Prefer a list, and keep it in step with the mailboxes upstream."),