Solution to stop compromised mails

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shawnwangws
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Solution to stop compromised mails

Post by shawnwangws »

Hi,
I am facing the issue with some compromised accounts. What I have done:
1. Contact the owner of the account to change the password
2. Disable some accounts of them.
3. Enable some functionalities in SMTP ->Security tab
- Reject mail if sender address is from an invalid domain
- Authenticated senders must use valid sender address
- disable all catchalls
- Restrict the number of recipients per email to 300
- Limit number of recipients per hour to 600 per hour
( I can't limit less as my company need use one of the account to send out notifications to all users)
- PRT Record check: Reject senders without PTR

But I still have many smtp connections with compromised account, even the account is disable, I can see it appears in SMTP connections.
Why it happens like that? What else I could do?
Thanks

shawnwangws
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Re: Solution to stop compromised mails

Post by shawnwangws »

Give an example.

I had disabled the account of e*****.com.au\tim****** last Friday 22/04/2016. But today I received the system critical message that

Value: ME-I0xxx: The 17 recipient(s) for mailbox e****.net.au/tim****** puts it over limit of 600 per hour (current count 609).

How to completely stop the activity of the account exclude delete the account?
Thanks.

GregWoodsVL
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Re: Solution to stop compromised mails

Post by GregWoodsVL »

Great question and followup. Still relevant. It's a pity nobody is interested. Maybe StackOverflow is better?

cfdynamics
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Re: Solution to stop compromised mails

Post by cfdynamics »

Is the IP they are connecting from perhaps in the "Privileged IP" list? Looks like anything in that list can send without restriction.
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