I created a suggestion in the suggestion forum for this in Feb: http://forum.mailenable.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=41571siteffect wrote:Blocking IP addresses on SMTP would be a good solution.Is this something that could be implemented in a next version ?The best way that I can think of to block these is to have something that will block failed connection attempts by IP address. ME would count each consecutive failed login attempt by the IP address rather than the username, so lets say users are locked out after 5 failed login attempts, and this bot is set to try 5 passwords on an account before trying a different login. And lets say this setting is set to 7, so somebody with 7 failed login attempts would be banned for lets say 48 hours. This attacker would lock the first account, and after 2 attempts on the second account, the IP address would be banned for 48 hours. This would be helpful, not a solution but helpful.
There are no comments on it. I'd love to see the feature! It would definitely ease the pain and make daily maintenance much easier!
They could be somebody who is trying to gather valid email address and sell them for cash, or they could be somebody trying to hack into as many computers as possible to install things like ransomware which happened to me last week (i caught them in the middle, stopped them, and decrypted all the files they encrypted). People will do anything for money...tomr wrote:Interesting reading on the web for ylmf-pc they have been at this for a few years. They are persistent bastards.