[qmailtoaster] mail server is flooded with user not found

2007-12-28 Thread slamp slamp
It seems that my mail server was attacked yesterday. I have already blacklisted the IP. My question is, how can I prevent this from happening? I do not need smtp access to my server remotely and i do not have remote users. All e-mail transactions are done through webmail and/or in my internal

Re: [qmailtoaster] mail server is flooded with user not found

2007-12-28 Thread Harry Zink
Not quite the same as the vpopmail slamming you are getting, but I eliminated nearly all the brute force efforts at local login accounts via the use of BlockHosts: http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts Maybe there's something similar, or an extension for it, to include vpopmail slamming?

Re: [qmailtoaster] mail server is flooded with user not found

2007-12-28 Thread slamp slamp
i do not think qmail supports tcp_wrappers that is used by the system. it uses its own tcpserver so blockhosts will not work for me. On Dec 28, 2007 11:48 AM, Harry Zink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite the same as the vpopmail slamming you are getting, but I eliminated nearly all the brute

Re: [qmailtoaster] mail server is flooded with user not found

2007-12-28 Thread Andreas Galatis
If you have a mailserver your sender-domains should be reachable for replies. The replier comes from external. isn't it? If you dont care for responses I doubt you want to have a spam-box, not a mail-server. Andreas Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 19:23 schrieb slamp slamp: i do not think

Re: [qmailtoaster] mail server is flooded with user not found

2007-12-28 Thread Timon Reinhard
Hi! Not quite the same as the vpopmail slamming you are getting, but I eliminated nearly all the brute force efforts at local login accounts via the use of BlockHosts: http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts Maybe there's something similar, or an extension for it, to include vpopmail