Not applicable to most installations, but I use geographical filtering on all 
ports other than 25. Fine if you are the only user of the email system. I don't 
block countries where I will send and retrieve email. I augment this with a 
small blocking list of IP space where I'm OK if they read my websites, but 
won't be sending/receiving email from their physical location. In short, 
schools and universities. So for example I would have trouble sending mail from 
the University of Michigan or anywhere in Kahzakstan. 

I get one hacker a week trying to guess passwords, and always from Digital 
Ocean VPS. I just block them as the occur. I have list of data centers that 
have tried to hack my web server, which I also block from the email server 
other than port 25.

I would like to see statistics on the success of such brute force attacks. They 
can't be very successful these days. 


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