Our outgoing pop attempts should back off quite a bit after a while, though
I don't think we disable completely. The errors should be visible if they
ever log in.
I would think that clients should make such login errors fairly prominent.
Our intrusion detection system gets the password hash as p
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Andreas Schamanek
wrote:
> Another option would be to send reminders to the users. I haven't done
> this yet because I don't feel comfortable to tell them to delete
> something. But I just had the idea to compile instructions how to
> disable a config and keep it
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, at 13:45, Al Iverson wrote:
> Thus, I don't see this as much of a real issue, to be honest.
I agree. Still, I'd prefer some way to convince users to update their
configurations.
> But if you're looking for ideas on how to ease your personal pain:
> You could null route th
You might be able to use an ipset with your firewall ... for example
ipset create blacklist4hr hash:ip hashsize 4096 timeout 14400
then add something like this into your firewall rules
-A INPUT -m set --match-set blacklist4hr src -j DROP
then have a program watching the logs based on some thre
Hi!
> I was wondering how others deal with failing login attempts related to
> deleted accounts. Is there a particularly good way to convince old
> users to update their configurations?
Re-open the account, feed it hge useless noise and a telling
subject/short README. Users will notice and
I run a combination system that uses Google Apps, Gmail accounts, and
Fetchmail/scripts to send, receive and process mail for around 400 users.
(It's a sort of wanted bulk mail "ham" tracking system, not a personal
message platform.) Occasionally somebody changes a password and thus
Fetchmail can n
Hi fellow mailops,
Often when user's mail accounts get canceled they do not remove or
update their MUAs' configuration. Hence, I see a lot of repeated login
attempts.
Apart from the fact that this is a waste of a number of resources,
these attempts also trigger my intrusion detection system (
