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I once ran a grep on my personal postfix mailserver's logs. Turns out I would constantly 550 bounce spam for email addresses that didn't exist for my domains. T
by uxp 16y ago
I once ran a grep on my personal postfix mailserver's logs. Turns out I would constantly 550 bounce spam for email addresses that didn't exist for my domains. Thousands of connections a day, all looking for adam@, barry@, charles@... and down an alphabetical list.
That, on top of the relay requests, would fill up a single day's logfile 5 times faster than authorized traffic.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoThis is why I stopped using firstname@domain and started using firstname.surname@domain. Tends to stop the dictionary attacks from working.