Hi Tom,

thanks for your time!

Am Mittwoch, den 14.09.2016, 17:13 +0200 schrieb Tom Hendrikx:
> 
> On 14-09-16 15:28, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I use fail2ban to block smtp auth failures. A few weeks ago a notebook
> > was infected and after that I saw massiv logins using this account on my
> > smtp relay from world wide fast changing IPs . Ratelimits on smtp auth
> > users blocked most of those messages, but before I could close that
> > account some spam was sent. Therefore I'm looking for a way to figure
> > out, if successful smtp auth logins are coming in a short period of time
> > from different IPs, possibly combining with geoip.
> > 
> 
> Fail2ban always keeps count based on ip address, so counts from
> different addresses can never be handled by fail2ban. You should apply
> this kind of limit using a policy on your MTA.

I understand.

> Using postfix, you could write a simple policy daemon that is able to
> keep track of the number of auth attempts per user (or per user per ip
> address) over time. See http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html
> for details.

It's sendmail ;) Any other ideas?

Ciao
Marcus




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