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Nov 8, 2015, 12:15 AM
17 Posts

Detect and stop authenticated user sending thousands of emails

  • Category: Domino Server
  • Platform: Linux
  • Release: 9.0.1
  • Role: Administrator,End User
  • Tags: linux,ubuntu,spam,hack,control,limit
  • Replies: 2

Hello,

I am investigating a way to control how many emails an authenticated user can send per day: For example, I would like to put a global limit per user to a maximum 1000 emails sent per day.

This is because the other day a user of our company had her account guessed, and these guys used her account to send 90k+ emails in 1 day before we noticed (it was Sunday). We quickly changed her credentials (she had a very weak password, so now I am learning how to force strong passwords on all accounts, and are almost there).

But anyway, any user can have his user/pass stolen, and the hackers can use SMTP authentication to send lots of unwanted emails.

  • I want to keep SMTP open for authentication, so users can use any email application, and our server to send their emails
  • Domino is configured not as an open relay, but authenticated users can send email freely

I would like a way to tell Domino that if any authenticated user send more than X emails in the last Y hours, the server should stop taking that user requests to send emails, send the administrators an email notifying this situation, and provide a way to "unlock" that user.

Any ideas? Is this achievable with the OOTB Domino functionality? Are there plugins that I can use for this purpose? Thanks!

Nov 10, 2015, 11:05 AM
1 Posts
custom code

I don't recall anything inherent within Domino that would rate limit mail delivery.  You'd have to write your own server addon to do it (unless someone has already written it).

Nov 12, 2015, 1:02 AM
17 Posts
custom code

thanks for your input. I think I will try to implement such a control myself, or will ask someone with experience coding for Domino for a quote for such an implementation. It would be great to control this at Dominos level, I think it is not a rare situation. Is there anyone here who has coding experience who wish to help me, so we can define the requirements together and give me a quote? Thanks


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