>On 2012-11-14 17:29, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>> My server is smaller than yours.  I block IPs after failed login, and
>> until now I've hoped that to be enough.  Might I ask you what amounts
>> of time and attempts did the attacker need to break in?

On 14.11.12 20:16, Mark Constable wrote:
>We've got a few thousand users and every now and then one will answer a
>phishing spam with their login details and sure enough we'll see up to
>100k spams go out from that account before we notice and change the
>users password and clear the mailq with...

I've used to track users replying to phishing addresses and warned them
from doing so. In case of weak passwords or unability to contact the user by
out hotline, I've requested changing passwords. 
I've also used to report such scams when they were e.g. on google docs.

We have also multiple times warned users before providing their passwords to
untrusted sites etc. 

While doing any kind of is just not enough, it often helps at least a bit.

Unfortunately I haven't got to processing such phishes and creating clamav
signatures or spamassassin rules to avoid such content (before leaving my
former empyer.


>https://raw.github.com/svarshavchik/courier-contrib/master/cancelmailq.sh
>
>Some kind of rate limiting scheme per user would be very handy. Something
>like 10 seconds between outgoing connections, per user, would not impact a
>normal single or a dozen or so CC'd messages (the sender would not notice)
>but it could make the difference between a few 1000 (at most) or 100,000
>(or more) messages going out per user in any 24 hour period.

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