Ralf Hildebrandt a écrit : > * mouss <mo...@ml.netoyen.net>: > >> too many users with 'a' as first letter, and machine is in the US while >> OP is in UK. so either OP munged things, or his server is under attack. >> >> anyway, as you said, not a postfix issue. > > One could fail2ban the attacker :) >
and if the probes use multiple TCP connections (if the pop server disconnects after a failure), then he can use rate limiting in his packet filter if supported ("recent" in iptables, "overload" in pf).