Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Re: Abuse AUTH from Microsoft outlook IP space

2023-08-18 Thread Dan Malm via mailop
Hi Tarun, While your mitigation has reduced the amount of authentications I see, it's only a partial fix. So far today (since 00:00 UTC) I count: 111000 connections deferred before AUTH 554000 successful authentications 712 emails successfully sent The amount of successful AUTH has been fairl

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Re: Abuse AUTH from Microsoft outlook IP space

2023-08-17 Thread Tarun Singh via mailop
Hello, Thanks for reporting the issue. I can confirm that we are aware of the issue, and it is mitigated for now. There was a change in SMTP authentication flow which inadvertently caused excessive retries as a result. The mitigation was applied yesterday so you should see the traffic going do