Re: keeping off brute force password attempts

2015-09-12 Thread Sebastian Nielsen
My suggestion is instead extending the logic to prevent bruteforce instead. For example: If you run a webhosting company, use geoIP to disable logins to accounts that do not originate from the same country as their payment method. Since this rule are set up account-wise, you can still easily tar

Re: Dynamic 'myhostname'

2015-09-12 Thread Mick
Hi, Quoting myself The very thing I added to allow forwarding without breaking SPF / DMARC appends the From field to the primary domain regardless of the domain the message comes from. I've withdrawn postsrsd for now while I look into a possibility of work around or something to replace

Re: keeping off brute force password attempts

2015-09-12 Thread Francis Brosnan Blázquez
Hi Ram, You are in the right track. Just add some additional logic to your banning code so it also detects and tracks correct logins. With this information you can easily avoid blocking legitimate IPs (with correct logins) that are just failing to authenticate because old and/or half configured

keeping off brute force password attempts

2015-09-12 Thread Ram
I am seeing a surge in the number of password attempts both at my postfix smtp servers as well as imap servers These attacks seem to be targetted since the attempts are made at correct userids At one instance I have seen mails being sent impersonating a valid sender asking for money to be tran