On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Shiloh Jennings wrote: > Dictionary attack detection is something I really wish XMail could = > natively > do. ModusMail was a package we used prior to XMail. It could detect = > and > temporarily ban an IP address for a set period of time. It actually = > helped > a lot. You do not want to permanently ban such IP addresses, because = > some > dictionary attacks do get relayed through legit hosts/ISPs from hijacked > email accounts from time to time. Permanently banning the IP addresses = > will > eventually cause your email server to block a lot of legit email. The > feature in ModusMail let you set a duration for the block in additional = > to a > threshold for activating such a block. There were a lot of things about > ModusMail I did not like, but that dictionary attack detection stuff was > actually really cool.
A new "SMTP-MaxErrors" inside the server.tab file. I let you immagine what it does ;) - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
