Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-17 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 1:24 AM John Brahy via mailop wrote: > > Spam Haus is one of the worst. They’ll blacklist a company’s Corporate emails > if they think they send advertising emails even if they never use their > corporate domain to send email. Really dirty. Son, you might be in the wrong

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-17 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Al Iverson via mailop said: >> On an debian/ubuntu system just >> >> apt install unbound >> >> It comes configured fairly safely, listening only on localhost. >> >> and edit /etc/resolv.conf to say >> >> nameserver 127.0.0.1 >> >> And there isn't much else to it for single machine.

Re: [mailop] Thanks Lili !

2021-07-17 Thread John Stephenson via mailop
Absolutely agree with Dave and Al, but I'll offer a very quick PSA to what I'm sure is a very small percentage of lurkers here who are looking for a quick fix to sneak crappy email into inboxes. You're better off staying off Lili and Marcel's radar. While they have proven helpful in addressing un

Re: [mailop] I disabled Spamhaus checking due to false-positives

2021-07-17 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Michael Peddemors via mailop said: >Just make it simple, set your DNS servers to be your upstream provider.. >You pay them money, use their services if you don't want to run your own >DNS server.. If you're doing DNSBL lookups and your upstream provider is a giant like Comcast or

[mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi all! I registered here only in recent time and this is my first post here (i am sorry, my English is not best)... In recent days i bother with many login attempt to my personal mail server, which i use for some years. I meet distributed dictionary attack to IMAP server which was partially bloc

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Thomas Hochstein via mailop
Slavko wrote: > Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to > others too or am i "special" target? Personal server here too. | root@moria # grep 'Incorrect authentication data' /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 | wc -l | 1026 So, a bit more than 1.000 attempts yesterday. >

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Thomas Hochstein via mailop said: >Slavko wrote: > >> Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to >> others too or am i "special" target? > >Personal server here too. > >| root@moria # grep 'Incorrect authentication data' /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 | >wc

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Andre van Eyssen via mailop
On Sat, 17 Jul 2021, Slavko via mailop wrote: Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to others too or am i "special" target? Some other questions, which comes to my minds without answers, while perhaps nobody here will/can know right answer, i will ask: Nope, this

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi, Dňa 17 Jul 2021 20:41:14 -0400 John Levine via mailop napísal: > It appears that Thomas Hochstein via mailop said: > About 12,000 here. It's a botnet, it's not targeting you any more > than any other random server it can find, and I don't know of any way > to block it. You can use somethi

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Jesper via mailop
On 2021-07-17 22:13, Slavko via mailop wrote: > Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to others too or am i "special" target? I've seen it for at least 16ish years, at work and on my personal servers. Mostly Brazil, South Korea, Turkey and Vietnam (+honourable