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SASL Authentication Failure

Posted: 14 Nov 2019, 04:08
by mikey_189763
Hey guys,

It seems my server is getting a lot of failed SASL auth attempts via the maillog lately. This doesn't seem to be part of CSF's default configuration, so a lot of bad attempts got through!

I added a custom rule for LFD to ban these "bad SASL" people, but I highly suggest you make it part of the default csf.conf

Here is the tutorial I followed to implement the custom rules on my own server:

https://www.24k.com.sg/blog/csf-setting ... -on-centos

Re: SASL Authentication Failure

Posted: 04 Feb 2020, 10:53
by ForumAdmin
These are already detected, but you need to ensure that you have set SMTPAUTH_LOG to the log file where they are logged. In your case: /var/log/maillog and then restart csf and then lfd.