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+title: "Harden your E-mail Server"
+tags: ['mail']
+weight: 2
+---
+
+## Hardening Postfix
+
+Put restrictions on servers sending mail to you.
+
+    postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination, reject_unknown_recipient_domain'
+
+## Anonymize Headers
+
+Use some regular expressions to prevent some meta data like a client's ip address
+from being leaked.
+
+    echo "/^Received:.*/     IGNORE
+    /^X-Originating-IP:/    IGNORE"
+    /^User-Agent:/        IGNORE
+    /^X-Mailer:/        IGNORE >> /etc/postfix/header_checks
+
+Add this file to the postfix configuration:
+
+    postconf -e "header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks"
+
+## Fail2Ban
+
+If you're not familiar with fail2Ban, it's essentially a program which
+blocks bot's and hacker's login requests after a few invalid attempts.
+
+    apt-get install fail2ban
+
+Make a local copy of the configuration file:
+
+    cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
+
+Go down to the `# Mail servers` line and paste this:
+
+    [postfix]
+
+    enabled  = true
+    port     = smtp,ssmtp,submission
+    filter   = postfix
+    logpath  = /var/log/mail.log
+
+
+    [sasl]
+
+    enabled  = true
+    port     = smtp,ssmtp,submission,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s
+    filter   = postfix-sasl
+    # You might consider monitoring /var/log/mail.warn instead if you are
+    # running postfix since it would provide the same log lines at the
+    # "warn" level but overall at the smaller filesize.
+    logpath  = /var/log/mail.warn
+    maxretry = 1
+    bantime  = 21600
+
+    [dovecot]
+
+    enabled = true
+    port    = smtp,ssmtp,submission,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s
+    filter  = dovecot
+    logpath = /var/log/mail.log
+
+This will only grant 2 login attempts and then block the requester for 6 hours. Now restart `fail2ban`:
+
+    systemctl restart fail2ban