To avoid bad things(TM) caused by a cracked e-mail account on our postfix mailserver, I used the script Check Auth Log to detect abnormal high numbers of logins or logins from many different IP addresses within a certain time onto a certain account. Then the script will lock out the account. This, together with per-session limits within postfix configuration (smtpd_client_message_rate_limit, smtpd_client_recipient_rate_limit), should help to avoid or at least mitigate the damage caused by cracked accounts, i.e. SMTP server being blacklisted.
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