Re: [mailop] Opinions? Email Abuse over TOR Network? (spamtraps)

2020-02-23 Thread Philip Paeps via mailop
On 2020-02-22 02:57:09 (+0800), Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: Consider how you would safely block the bad guys, yet let the good guys still use the service. Which brings me to my favorite topic, 2FA for IMAP/SMTP Auth, as many of you know.. (we talk about CLIENTID often enough). Isn't

Re: [mailop] Opinions? Email Abuse over TOR Network?

2020-02-23 Thread Ken O'Driscoll via mailop
On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 07:40 -0800, Roger Marquis via mailop wrote: > Perhaps more interesting is the fact that the vast majority of ESPs don't > even think about obfuscating _usernames_. Are there good reasons to use a > well known string like the email address for half of a credential? While not

Re: [mailop] Opinions? Email Abuse over TOR Network?

2020-02-23 Thread Roger Marquis via mailop
Alessandro Vesely wrote: Even without 2FA, a password different from "12345" is probably desperately hard to guess. An activity suited for bots running at someone else's expenses. Enabling Dovecot auth_verbose and mail_debug will show credential failures and in most cases you're right, they ar