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"Someone managed to hack in by brute force anyway. I only noticed because of the _millions_ of automated replies that were coming in every day from dead email
by joeyh 15y ago
"Someone managed to hack in by brute force anyway. I only
noticed because of the _millions_ of automated replies that were coming in every day from dead email accounts or people
that were out of office."
This is not a description of your email server being cracked. It's a description of someone Joe-jobbing pretending to send mail from your domain. Duckgo for mitigation techniques..
- dredmorbius 15y agoIn fairness, there's not enough information provided to determine which this is, though my suspicion is that OP wouldn't know the difference regardless.
- spudlyo 15y agoSee also: backscatter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail)