The way I handled them was to change the Postmaster account password to
something extremely hard then started blocking their IPs in the blacklist.
They eventually stopped.
Mike Hebel
> I have some jerkwad in Asia attacking my sims machine. I guess they
> are trying to gain access because they are trying a dictionary attack
> to get the password. What is the best way to stop them?
>
> Here is some of the log:
>
> 10:15:48 1 SMTP {administrator} AUTH failed: password(123456) is wrong.
> Connection from [222.183.144.79:1887]
> 10:15:50 0 SYSTEM Account {administrator} Resources open failed. Error
> Code=-43
> 10:15:50 1 SMTP {administrator} AUTH failed: password(1234567) is
> wrong. Connection from [222.183.144.79:1887]
> 10:15:53 0 SYSTEM Account {administrator} Resources open failed. Error
> Code=-43
> 10:15:53 1 SMTP {administrator} AUTH failed: password(12345678) is
> wrong. Connection from [222.183.144.79:1887]
> 10:15:55 0 SYSTEM Account {administrator} Resources open failed. Error
> Code=-43
> 10:15:55 1 SMTP {administrator} AUTH failed: password(654321) is wrong.
> Connection from [222.183.144.79:1887]
> 10:15:58 0 SYSTEM Account {administrator} Resources open failed. Error
> Code=-
>
> Leonard
>
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