Hi there. Some days ago 1 of our postfix servers was abused by bot networks using one of our customer's stolen credentials, inadvertently done by a virus/keylogger probably. In few hours more than 20000 spam messages were in our queue. Looking at the logs I realized all those outgoing messages came authenticated with the same stolen user credentials and from many different geolocations. Just changing the password solved the problem. This is a very disturbing issue for us, since it is hard to notice there's something going on until the server is already puking spam all over. Does anybody know of an automatic way of preventing this (or at least an automatic way of blocking it in early stages)? We were thinking of something like a script monitoring the logs for same-user authenticated connections from different IPs to create a blacklist of some sort...

Thanks in advance.

Ignacio

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