[Users] Zimbra login page is indexed in search engines by default, is this good or bad?

[Malte S. Stretz]

zmprov mcf zimbraMailKeepOutWebCrawlers TRUE

zmmailboxdctl restart


On 21/03/2019 21:07, Randy Leiker wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>
> I've seen our own customers do the same thing at times, by Googling 
> "Zimbra" and trying to login to whichever site they find in the search 
> results.
>
> On Synacor's end, it would be trivial to start discouraging search 
> engine spiders by including a meta tag like this on the login page:
> <meta name="robots" 
> content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive,nosnippet,noimageindex" />
> Combined with adding a robots.txt file in the web site root 
> disallowing indexing of any content on the site, that would at least 
> start reducing the problem gradually as Zimbra admins upgrade over 
> time.  But, of course, it doesn't do anything to help with the current 
> situation.
>
>
> Randy Leiker (randy at skywaynetworks.com )
> Skyway Networks, LLC
> 1.800.538.5334 / 913.663.3900 Ext. 100
> https://skywaynetworks.com <http://www.skywaynetworks.com>
>
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> *From: *"Info Zeta Alliance" <info at zetalliance.org>
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> *Sent: *Thursday, March 21, 2019 2:42:02 PM
> *Subject: *[Users] Zimbra login page is indexed in search engines by 
> default, is this good or bad?
>
> Hello All,
>
> Zimbra login page is indexed in search engines by default, is this 
> good or bad?
>
> I see a lot of spammers taking advantage of this, trying to trick 
> people. By referencing
> to the domain and found email addresses online.
>
> Also, I see end users that just google Zimbra and try to log-on on the 
> first hit found,
> yes I know...
>
> But what is the use for indexing the login page really? Do you think 
> the default
> behaviour (indexing) is good?
>
> Please let me know!
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Barry de Graaff
> Zeta Alliance
> Co-founder & Developer
> zetalliance.org | github.com/Zimbra-Community
>
> Signal: +31 617 220 227
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