Mail account brute force / harassment

[@lbutlr]

On 11 Apr 2019, at 04:43, Marc Roos via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> B. With 500GB dump
> - the owner of the attacking server (probably hacked) will notice it 
> will be forced to take action.

Unlikely. What is very likely is that your ISP shuts you don for network abuse.

> If abuse clouds are smart (most are) they would notice that attacking my 
> servers, will result in the loss of abuse nodes, hence they will not 
> bother me anymore. 

Not at all the case.

> If every one would apply strategy B, the abuse problem would get less. 

No. The abuse problem wold be far worse.


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