On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 07:42:33PM +0100, Adam Weremczuk wrote:

> It's postfix 3.1.6-0+deb9u1 on Debian 9.
> 
> Since enabling STARTTLS on port 25 I'm getting lots of traffic looking 
> like this (relay attempts?):
> 
> Sep  6 09:17:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[14622]: connect from 
> unknown[77.247.110.240]
> Sep  6 09:17:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[14622]: setting up TLS connection 
> from unknown[77.247.110.240]
> Sep  6 09:17:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[14622]: unknown[77.247.110.240]: TLS 
> cipher list "aNULL:-aNULL:HIGH:MEDIUM:+RC4:@STRENGTH"
> Sep  6 09:17:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[14622]: unknown[77.247.110.240]: 
> Issuing session ticket, key expiration: 1630916885
> Sep  6 09:17:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[14622]: Anonymous TLS connection 
> established from unknown[77.247.110.240]: TLSv1.2 with cipher 
> ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)

Your TLS log level is too verbose. The recommended TLS log level for
normal operation is "1", levels "2" and higher are for short-term
diagnostic use only, and only if there's good reason to expect this
to be useful, and just drown the most relevant details in noise.

> Sep  6 09:17:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[14622]: lost connection after AUTH 
> from unknown[77.247.110.240]
> Sep  6 09:17:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[14622]: disconnect from 
> unknown[77.247.110.240] ehlo=2 starttls=1 auth=0/1 commands=3/4

> grep 77.247.110.240 /var/log/mail.log | wc -l
> 16735

Not enough to matter, less than one per second.

> It's a different IP(s) every day so banning them manually is not going 
> to work well.

    inetnum:        77.247.110.0 - 77.247.110.255
    netname:        PEENQ-NL-TLN-VPS-01
    country:        NL
    geoloc:         52.370216 4.895168
    admin-c:        PA10298-RIPE
    tech-c:         PA10298-RIPE
    org:            ORG-PNQ1-RIPE
    status:         ASSIGNED PA
    mnt-by:         MNT-PEENQ
    created:        2019-03-01T16:28:00Z
    last-modified:  2021-02-05T10:53:28Z
    source:         RIPE

    organisation:   ORG-PNQ1-RIPE
    org-name:       PEENQ.NL
    org-type:       OTHER
    address:        Netherlands

You could try reaching out to the network provider, web site says:

    info (at) peenq (dot) nl

-- 
    VIktor.

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