We are asked about messages like the one below all the time. In this case, the IP appears to be in Italy, and the user is not, so I recommended she change the password. But truthfully, not certain when this message is generated. Is it when someone actually has guessed the correct password (as the message sort of implies) ? Or have there just been some guesses from that IP? Because if it's the latter, I wouldn't tell someone to change a really good password to another password.. Weak one, yes.
Somewhat related: if you take your laptop to a new country and try to login and you are asked to enter your password, is that because the server doesn't recognize your IP address? We have a customer who says he is constantly thwarted on login from a new location until he goes into Outlook settings and runs "Test account settings." The reason for that is difficult for us to understand (although we don't use Outlook - and, unfortunately, don't often hit exotic locales).
Any enlightenment appreciated.
Martin and Larry
SpeedSpan.
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From: Mail System [
mailto:mailadmin@xxxxxx.com]
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 11:43 PM
To:
dwhxxxxxx@xxxxxx.comSubject: SMTP send from new address blocked
Important report from SurgeMail sp40.spanmail.net host=sp40.spanmail.net -
see details below
Sorry logins are not permitted from unknown ip addresses. Please use this
url to enable SMTP sending for the new ip address If you were not sending
from this address then change your password immediately!
Login from unknown address (g_safe_smtp) (91.81.108.166)
user=dwhxxxxxx@xxxxxx.com open this link in browser to enable logins
https://mail.xxxxxx.com:7454/vfy?f=55d937c2
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