Re: [exim] automatically blacklisting clients that fail SMT…

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Szerző: Mikhail Lischuk
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Címzett: exim-users
Tárgy: Re: [exim] automatically blacklisting clients that fail SMTPauthentication


On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:58:20 +0000, W B Hacker wrote:

> By

'clients' do you mean:
>
> - user's who cannot type consistently or

have set their MUA correctly
>
> - *former* user's whose MUA have not

had their old accounts
> disabled/removed.
>
> - apparent break-in

attempts
>
> And in any case, on which arrival port(s) and with which

protocol?
>
> The problem should go away with no need to blacklist if

you get the
> combination set optimally.
>
> Bill
> -- 韓家標


I
think for the last one fail2ban or something like that should be enough.
First two are a good example why you should be careful when tuning
fail2ban to avoid legal users blacklisting.