Re: XMail under attack - failed pop3 logins
Spyros Tsiolis <[email protected]>
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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. ----- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > xmail mailing list > [email protected] > http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list [email protected] http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail