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

[Info Zeta Alliance]

That is nice... do you think it should be default? 

Kind regards, 

Barry de Graaff 
Zeta Alliance 
Co-founder & Developer 
zetalliance.org | github.com/Zimbra-Community 

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From: "Malte S. Stretz" <mss at msquadrat.de> 
To: users at lists.zetalliance.org 
Sent: Thursday, 21 March, 2019 21:54:54 
Subject: Re: [Users] Zimbra login page is indexed in search engines by default, is this good or bad? 

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 ( [ mailto:randy at skywaynetworks.com | randy at skywaynetworks.com ] ) 
Skyway Networks, LLC 
1.800.538.5334 / 913.663.3900 Ext. 100 
[ http://www.skywaynetworks.com/ | https://skywaynetworks.com ] 


From: "Info Zeta Alliance" [ mailto:info at zetalliance.org | <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 
Fingerprint: 97f4694a1d9aedad012533db725ddd156d36a2d0 




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