Re: Attack on the James Server

Benoit TELLIER <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.james.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Paul,

Fail2ban set up with Apache James seems rather generic, and might be 
worth sharing through either a blog post of through a dedicated 
documentation page.

Do you think you would be able to share your experience with others?

I would be happy to add a blog post entry on James website for this, if 
relevant.

Regards,

Benoit

On 15/06/2023 00:13, Günter Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at the end I'm using fail2ban. Thanks a lot for information.
>
> I see log4j2 works too with the parameters, so I found a solution for me.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Günter
>
>> Günter Paul <[email protected]> hat am 08.06.2023 22:23 CEST geschrieben:
>>
>>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks, logback sounds good. I'm using the spring-version. I will try to change, hope it' possible without problems.
>>
>> Günter
>>
>>
>> Am 8. Juni 2023 18:21:55 MESZ schrieb David Matthews <[email protected]>:
>>>> To chip-in. It should be possible to configure logback to: output only log entries for failing
>>>> connections (e.g. for org.apache.james.protocols.smtp.core.esmtp.AuthCmdHandler.doAuthTest) and with
>>>> simplified entry (e.g. only the error message) that should make writing regexp simpler.
>>>>
>>> yes, that would help
>>>
>>> With my exim4 setup, fail2ban is only looking at the rejectlog. You can't just ban everything though as you'd lock yourself out next time you fat fingered the password.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Matthews
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>>>
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