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Block dovecot access for client from certain networks, like server networks to prevent usage of bad clients, that sync data to the cloud such as the new Outlook

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Dovecot Bad Clients

There are popular mail clients that do nasty stuff when a user logs into them. Like routing communication through their servers or sync the credentials to their servers and letting the server retrieve mail on behalf of the user. This is a privacy nightmare and this script is meant to find users, using such clients and stopping them.

It hooks into Dovecot as a passdb, logging request denying it when the user logs in from a listed source. These listed sources can be

  • The Autonomous System if the requesting IP by its
    • Number (ASN)
    • Description/Name (according to its WHOIS entry)
    • Registration Country (according to its WHOIS entry)
  • The Network of requesting IP Address by
    • CIDR Network
    • Country (according to its WHOIS entry)
    • Name (according to its WHOIS entry)
  • The reverse hostname of the requesting IP
  • Entities related to the WHOIS entry like Organizations, Owners, Technical Contacts, Admin Contacts, etc...

Future additions

In the future other information sources to consider could be

  • GeoIP to MaxMind DB or similar
  • Realtime DNS blocklists (RBL)

Feel free open an issue for additional ideas

Setup

First you need to install the dovecot lua extension e.g. with

apt install dovecot-auth-lua

The package may be called differently depending on you distro

Then install the script dependencies with either system packaging tools like apt or via the language specific tools like pip and luarocks

  • Python
    • ipwhois
    • iniconfig
    • portalocker
    • redis (optional)
  • Lua
    • lua-socket
    • lua-json (or lua-cjson)
    • lua-inifile

Put login.lua in /etc/dovecot and client_networks.py in /usr/local/bin.

Now configure the passdb in Dovecot like this, if you want to use it as the first passdb. However, this will create a lot of spam, as any unsuccessful bruteforce attempt will be logged as well

passdb {
  driver = lua
  args = file=/etc/dovecot/login.lua blocking=yes
  skip = never
}

It is better to use it as the last passdb, and configure you privious passdb to let the request through

passdb {
  driver = ldap

  # Path for LDAP configuration file, see example-config/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.passdb.conf.ext
  result_success = continue-ok
}

#...
passdb {
  driver = lua
  args = file=/etc/dovecot/badclients/login.lua blocking=yes
  skip = unauthenticated
}

Create a file /etc/dovecot/bad_clients.conf.ext to configure the passdb. Use bad_client.conf.ext.dist as guidance.

Set up the lists

In your list_path you can configure the following lists. No matter how you set up the list it will be impossible to block the following networks

  • 0.0.0.0/8 (This Network, RFC 1122, Section 3.2.1.3)
  • 127.0.0.0/8 (Loopback, RFC 1122, Section 3.2.1.3)
  • 169.254.0.0/16 (Link Local, RFC 3927)
  • 192.0.0.0/24 (IETF Protocol Assignments, RFC 5736)
  • 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1, RFC 5737)
  • 192.88.99.0/24 (6to4 Relay Anycast, RFC 3068)
  • 198.18.0.0/15 (Network Interconnect Device Benchmark Testing, RFC 2544)
  • 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2, RFC 5737)
  • 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3, RFC 5737)
  • 224.0.0.0/4 (Multicast, RFC 3171)
  • 255.255.255.255/32 (Limited Broadcast, RFC 919, Section 7)
  • 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16 (Private-Use Networks, RFC 1918)
  • 198.97.38.0/24 (IANA Reserved)

asn.deny.lst

List of literal Autonomous System Numbers to block

E.g.

# Vodafone, DE
AS3209

as_dscr.deny.lst

List of Lua Regular Expressions of which ipwhois puts as as_desc. Which consists of the as-name, first line of descr and the CC when running WHOIS against the AS.

whois AS3209

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% Note: this output has been filtered.
%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to 'AS3209 - AS3353'

as-block:       AS3209 - AS3353
descr:          RIPE NCC ASN block
remarks:        These AS Numbers are assigned to network operators in the RIPE NCC service region.
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
created:        2018-11-22T15:27:19Z
last-modified:  2018-11-22T15:27:19Z
source:         RIPE

% Information related to 'AS3209'

% Abuse contact for 'AS3209' is '[email protected]'

aut-num:        AS3209
as-name:        VODANET
org:            ORG-MAT1-RIPE
descr:          International IP-Backbone of Vodafone
descr:          Duesseldorfer Strasse 15
descr:          D-65760 Eschborn
descr:          Germany
descr:          http://www.vodafone.de

Becomes VODANET International IP-Backbone of Vodafone, DE

Each line needs to be a valid Lua Regular expression that need to match the entire description e.g. VODANET.* or .*Vodafone.* for VODANET International IP-Backbone of Vodafone, DE

as_cc.deny.lst and net_cc.deny.lst

List ISO 3166-2 country codes, associated to the Autonomous System or Network. One per line.

CC Country CC Country CC Country CC Country
AD Andorra EG Egypt LB Lebanon RO Romania
AE United Arab Emirates EH Western Sahara LC Saint Lucia RS Serbia
AF Afghanistan ER Eritrea LI Liechtenstein RU Russian Federation
AG Antigua & Barbuda ES Spain LK Sri Lanka RW Rwanda
AI Anguilla ET Ethiopia LR Liberia SA Saudi Arabia
AL Albania FI Finland LS Lesotho SB Solomon Islands
AM Armenia FJ Fiji LT Lithuania SC Seychelles
AN Netherlands Antilles FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) LU Luxembourg SD Sudan
AO Angola FM Micronesia, Federated States Of LV Latvia SE Sweden
AQ Antarctica FO Faroe Islands LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya SG Singapore
AR Argentina FR France MA Morocco SH St. Helena
AS American Samoa GA Gabon MC Monaco SI Slovenia
AT Austria GB United Kingdom MD Moldova, Republic Of SJ Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands
AU Australia GD Grenada ME Montenegro SK Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
AW Aruba GE Georgia MF Saint Martin SL Sierra Leone
AX Aland Islands GF French Guiana MG Madagascar SM San Marino
AZ Azerbaijan GG Guernsey MH Marshall Islands SN Senegal
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina GH Ghana MK Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of SO Somalia
BB Barbados GI Gibraltar ML Mali SR Suriname
BD Bangladesh GL Greenland MM Myanmar ST Sao Tome & Principe
BE Belgium GM Gambia MN Mongolia SV El Salvador
BF Burkina Faso GN Guinea MO Macau SY Syrian Arab Republic
BG Bulgaria GP Guadeloupe MP Northern Mariana Islands SZ Swaziland
BH Bahrain GQ Equatorial Guinea MQ Martinique TC Turks & Caicos Islands
BI Burundi GR Greece MR Mauritania TD Chad
BJ Benin GS South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands MS Montserrat TF French Southern Territories
BM Bermuda GT Guatemala MT Malta TG Togo
BN Brunei Darussalam GU Guam MU Mauritius TH Thailand
BO Bolivia GW Guinea-Bissau MV Maldives TJ Tajikistan
BR Brazil GY Guyana MW Malawi TK Tokelau
BS Bahamas HK Hong Kong MX Mexico TL Timor-Leste
BT Bhutan HM Heard & Mc Donald Islands MY Malaysia TM Turkmenistan
BV Bouvet Island HN Honduras MZ Mozambique TN Tunisia
BW Botswana HR Croatia (Hrvatska) NA Namibia TO Tonga
BY Belarus HT Haiti NC New Caledonia TR Turkey
BZ Belize HU Hungary NE Niger TT Trinidad & Tobago
CA Canada ID Indonesia NF Norfolk Island TV Tuvalu
CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands IE Ireland NG Nigeria TW Taiwan
CD Congo, Democratic Republic Of The IL Israel NI Nicaragua TZ Tanzania, United Republic Of
CF Central African Republic IM Isle Of Man NL Netherlands UA Ukraine
CG Congo IN India NO Norway UG Uganda
CH Switzerland IO British Indian Ocean Territory NP Nepal UM United States Minor Outlying Islands
CI Cote D’Ivoire IQ Iraq NR Nauru US United States
CK Cook Islands IR Iran (Islamic Republic Of) NU Niue UY Uruguay
CL Chile IS Iceland NZ New Zealand UZ Uzbekistan
CM Cameroon IT Italy OM Oman VA Holy See (Vatican City State)
CN China JE Jersey PA Panama VC Saint Vincent & The Grenadines
CO Colombia JM Jamaica PE Peru VE Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic Of
CR Costa Rica JO Jordan PF French Polynesia VG Virgin Islands (British)
CU Cuba JP Japan PG Papua New Guinea VI Virgin Islands (U.S.)
CV Cape Verde KE Kenya PH Philippines VN Viet Nam
CX Christmas Island KG Kyrgyzstan PK Pakistan VU Vanuatu
CY Cyprus KH Cambodia PL Poland WF Wallis & Futuna Islands
CZ Czech Republic KI Kiribati PM St. Pierre & Miquelon WS Samoa
DE Germany KM Comoros PN Pitcairn YE Yemen
DJ Djibouti KN Saint Kitts & Nevis PR Puerto Rico YT Mayotte
DK Denmark KP Korea, Democratic People’S Republic Of PS Palestinian Territory ZA South Africa
DM Dominica KR Korea, Republic Of PT Portugal ZM Zambia
DO Dominican Republic KW Kuwait PW Palau ZW Zimbabwe
DZ Algeria KY Cayman Islands PY Paraguay ZZ Local Country
EC Ecuador KZ Kazakhstan QA Qatar
EE Estonia LA Lao People’S Democratic Republic RE Reunion

whois 139.162.133.252

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% Note: this output has been filtered.
%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '139.162.0.0 - 139.162.255.255'

% Abuse contact for '139.162.0.0 - 139.162.255.255' is '[email protected]'

inetnum:        139.162.0.0 - 139.162.255.255
netname:        EU-LINODE-20141229
descr:          139.162.0.0/16
org:            ORG-LL72-RIPE
country:        US
admin-c:        TA2589-RIPE
abuse-c:        LAS85-RIPE
tech-c:         TA2589-RIPE
status:         LEGACY
remarks:        Please send abuse reports to [email protected]
mnt-by:         linode-mnt
created:        2004-02-02T16:20:09Z
last-modified:  2022-12-12T21:26:29Z
source:         RIPE

Is Network CC US but the associated AS, AS63949 would have (interestingly enough) NL (which makes little sense, but this what ipwhois detects)

net_name.deny.lst

List of Lua regexes of provider specified network names in WHOIS.

Names might be EU-LINODE-20141229, DE-D2VODAFONE-20220628, DTAG-DIAL16 or AMAZON-IAD, MSFT

These are not necessarily unique.

Each line needs to be a valid Lua Regular expression that need to match the entire name like EU%-LINODE%-20141229 or .*LINODE.* for EU-LINODE-20141229

rev_host.deny.lst

List of Lua regexes of reverse hostnames resolvable via the local DNS resolver.

E.g.

$ nslookup 52.23.158.188
188.158.23.52.in-addr.arpa	name = ec2-52-23-158-188.compute-1.amazonaws.com.

Empty (NXDOMAIN) results will be matched as <>

$ nslookup 52.97.246.245
** server can't find 245.246.97.52.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

Each line needs to be a valid Lua Regular expression that need to match the entire reverse name (without trailing dots), e.g. .*%.compute%-1%.amazonaws%.com for ec2-52-23-158-188.compute-1.amazonaws.com

entity.deny.lst

List of related WHOIS entities like administrators or organizations.

E.g. Related with 176.112.169.192 (ASN 7764) are EY1327-RIPE (VK admin-c), ORG-LLCn4-RIPE (VK LLC), RIPE-NCC-END-MNT (RIPE Contact), VKCOMPANY-MNT (Maintainer for VK objects), VKNC (VK admin-c), MAIL-RU (abuse-c)

ip_net.deny.lst

List of IPv4 CIDR networks to block access from. E.g. 176.112.168.0/21

There is no check for set host-bits, the mask is just applied to both addresses to compare network addresses, if they match the request is blocked. This means for example 176.112.170.0/21 is equivalent to 176.112.168.0/21

MaxMind Filters

If you have configured the MaxMind GeoLite Database, you can also set up lists based on the results.

maxmind/as_org.deny.ist

This is similar to as_decr.deny.lst, however, it is to Match the GeoLite ASN Database, that gives slightly different results.

maxmind/geo_loc.deny.ist

A list of numeric Geoname IDs. Matched against the City's, Most specific Subdivision's, Country's Geoname ID.

Ex

;Virgina, USA
6254928

;Ashburn, Virgina, USA
4744870

maxmind/coords.deny.lst

List of coordinates and radii that are intersected with the location and confidence radius of the Maxmind lookup. The format per line is latitude,longitude,radius,intersection.

For the check the circle drawn by these coordinates and the radius (in kilometers) and the circle drawn by MaxMind's coordinates and their accuracy radius (in kilometer) are checked for an intersection. If the overlap is more than (intersection*100)% of their accuracy radius, the request is blocked

E.g. The radii of 38.741104,-49.6676859,100 and 37.977529,-48.2432889,100 intersect about 50km, i.e. ~50%

For an intersection >= 1 their center coordinate is fully contained within our circle

Logs

The script additionally generates log lines like this for later eximination

Mai 01 04:06:34 honeypot dovecot[56359]: auth-worker(61890): mail-audit: user=<honey-craig>, service=imap, ip=176.112.169.218, host=rimap26.i.mail.ru, asn=AS47764, as_cc=RU, as_desc=<VK-AS, RU>, net_name=<VK-FRONT>, net_cc=RU, entity=EY1327-RIPE, entity=ORG-LLCn4-RIPE, entity=RIPE-NCC-END-MNT, entity=VKCOMPANY-MNT, entity=VKNC, entity=MAIL-RU
Mai 03 13:07:45 honeypot dovecot[70754]: auth-worker(77223): mail-audit: user=<honey>, service=imap, ip=172.17.1.204, host=dhcp204.internal, asn=None, as_cc=ZZ, as_desc=<IANA-RESERVED>, net_name=<Private-Use Networks>, net_cc=ZZ, entity=None
Mai 06 04:20:25 honeypot dovecot[70754]: auth-worker(90054): mail-audit: user=<honey-sugar>, service=imap, ip=139.162.133.252, host=node-eu-0001.email2-cloud.com, asn=AS63949, as_cc=NL, as_desc=<AKAMAI-LINODE-AP Akamai Connected Cloud, SG>, net_name=<EU-LINODE-20141229>, net_cc=US, entity=linode-mnt, entity=ORG-LL72-RIPE, entity=TA2589-RIPE, entity=LAS85-RIPE
Mai 06 11:00:20 honeypot dovecot[91279]: auth-worker(92237): mail-audit: user=<honey-gmail-pop>, service=pop3, ip=209.85.218.15, host=mail-ej1-f15.google.com, asn=AS15169, as_cc=US, as_desc=<GOOGLE, US>, net_name=<GOOGLE>, net_cc=None, entity=GOGL
Mai 06 11:05:24 honeypot dovecot[91279]: auth-worker(92256): mail-audit: user=<honey-gmail-smtp>, service=smtp, ip=209.85.218.53, host=mail-ej1-f53.google.com, asn=AS15169, as_cc=US, as_desc=<GOOGLE, US>, net_name=<GOOGLE>, net_cc=None, entity=GOGL

A script to retrieve user statisics of the last 24h might look something like this

journalctl -S "24 hours ago" -g "mail-audit" | awk -F : '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -h

Or some more sophisticated stats might be generated with audit.py.

Integration Other Services

Mail ecosystems usually don't only consist of IMAP (or POP) servers, but have SMTP components for users to send emails as well. While it is possible for dovecot to act as an MUA, it is not a very common setup. Dedicated SMTP server like Exim or Postfix are probably used much more often. If these use SASL authentication with dovecot, they (at least Exim) will integrate flawlessly, showing up as service=smtp with the appropriate client IP address of the client connecting to SMTP.

In other setups and with other IMAP servers the script will currently not work.

Bad Client Examples

Here are some example of clients and services worth blocking. Inspired by a list of prohibited mail client at Uni Bonn, because the clients more or less silently and transparently funnel credentials and/or messages through their clouds

Mail Clients connecting via the cloud

  • New Outlook (Microsoft Corporation)
    • Windows, macOS (with Cloud sync enabled)
    • Privacy Policy
    • Login and Messages Synced with Office 365 Cloud to "enhance experience"
    • IP Rages available
      • 13.107.6.152/31, 13.107.18.10/31, 13.107.128.0/22, 23.103.160.0/20, 40.96.0.0/13, 40.104.0.0/15, 52.96.0.0/14, 131.253.33.215/32, 132.245.0.0/16, 150.171.32.0/22, 204.79.197.215/32
  • Edison Mail
  • Newton (CloudMagic, Inc.)
  • Spark Mail
  • Email App for Outlook & others, Email App for Yahoo! & others, Univeral Email and other derivatives of Mail.ru (Craigpark Limited/Mail.ru Group)
    • Android [1] [2] [3] [4]
    • Privacy Policy: Craigpark Limited, Mail.ru
    • hardly functional
    • logs in via VK Networks from Moscow, even if App setup fails
    • AS47764 (VKCOMPANY-MNT) and maybe others
  • Sugar Mail email app (Kostya Vasilyev US)

Services that allow to connect external accounts

Mail Apps with suspicious wording or behavior

  • Boxer (vmWare Workspace ONE)
    • "Data collected by Boxer [...] User informatiton [...] such as [...] credentials"
  • MailTime
    • Privacy Policy
    • "With your permission at sign-up or use of the MailTime App, you authorize us to access and process email messages in your Connected Email Accounts in order to provide the MailTime App Services to you"
  • VK Mail
    • Likely the same as Mail.ru if it was working

Cloud Rages to block

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