sure - thanks for replying, this comes in waves taking the server to it's maximum at times
as far as I can see this only logs are this: ==> /var/log/qmail/smtps/current <== 2020-04-18 05:04:48.450871500 tcpserver: status: 6/60 2020-04-18 05:04:48.480785500 tcpserver: pid 13339 from 141.98.80.30 2020-04-18 05:04:48.480787500 tcpserver: ok 13339 dev.brayworth.com:172.105.181.18:465 :141.98.80.30::25638 2020-04-18 05:04:52.797644500 tcpserver: status: 7/60 2020-04-18 05:04:52.830767500 tcpserver: pid 13340 from 141.98.80.30 2020-04-18 05:04:52.830768500 tcpserver: ok 13340 dev.brayworth.com:172.105.181.18:465 :141.98.80.30::14862 2020-04-18 05:04:57.248902500 tcpserver: status: 8/60 2020-04-18 05:04:57.304003500 tcpserver: pid 13342 from 141.98.80.30 2020-04-18 05:04:57.304006500 tcpserver: ok 13342 dev.brayworth.com:172.105.181.18:465 :141.98.80.30::9646 2020-04-18 05:05:01.854790500 tcpserver: status: 9/60 2020-04-18 05:05:01.902265500 tcpserver: pid 13345 from 141.98.80.30 2020-04-18 05:05:01.902266500 tcpserver: ok 13345 dev.brayworth.com:172.105.181.18:465 :141.98.80.30::54058 2020-04-18 05:05:09.729711500 tcpserver: end 13338 status 256 2020-04-18 05:05:09.729713500 tcpserver: status: 8/60 2020-04-18 05:06:05.965715500 tcpserver: end 13342 status 256 2020-04-18 05:06:05.965716500 tcpserver: status: 7/60 2020-04-18 05:06:06.141272500 tcpserver: end 13340 status 256 2020-04-18 05:06:06.141273500 tcpserver: status: 6/60 David Bray 0418 745334 2 ∞ & < On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 15:41, Eric Broch <ebr...@whitehorsetc.com> wrote: > Can you send the log of one of the "bad" connections? > > On 4/17/2020 10:59 PM, David Bray wrote: > > I can see I'm getting hammered on my smtps port > > How can I mitigate this? > > I can see the IP's in /var/log/qmail/smtps/current > > *but where do I actually see that the smtp auth actually fails ?* > > or do I need to increase the logging somewhere ? > > if I tail -f /var/log/dovecot.log > > I can see the imap and pop failures > > thanks in advance > > David Bray > 0418 745334 > 2 ∞ & < > >
