Re: XMail under attack - failed pop3 logins

Spyros Tsiolis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.xmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Why do you port-forward pop110 to the outside world anyway ?

If you have clients outside, why not use VPNs for this ?

AFAIK, port-forwarding pop3 to the outside world is not advisable.

Maybe Secure POP3 ?

Just my thoughts,

s.


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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:55:07 +0000
> Subject: [xmail] XMail under attack - failed pop3 logins
> 
> 
> I've not seen this before today but XMail fell
> over during a pop3 password attack.
> 
>      pop3 connections at firewall                
> Feb 10 05:00-06:00     0
> Feb 10 06:00-07:00  1161 
> Feb 10 07:00-08:00  9851
> Feb 10 08:00-09:00   248 
> Feb 10 09:00-10:00     0
> 
> Pop3 log on one server has 4987 entries all 
> "ELOGIN" but nothing else.  Second server on
> network has 3 similar entries from Feb 6.
> 
> Can I just add offending source ip range to spammers.tab
> or is it best to block at firewall?
> 
> I believe firewall can block on connection rate so
> might investigate that.
> 
> David
> 
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