<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Barry,</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></div><div><pre id="line1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><<span class="start-tag">meta</span> <span class="attribute-name">name</span>="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" <span class="attribute-name">content</span>="<a class="attribute-value">noindex,nofollow,noarchive,nosnippet,noimageindex</a>" /></font></pre><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span name="x"></span><div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br>Randy Leiker (</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">randy@skywaynetworks.com</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">)</span></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Skyway Networks, LLC</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">1.800.538.5334</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">/</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">913.663.3900 Ext. 100</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><a href="http://www.skywaynetworks.com" target="_blank">https://skywaynetworks.com</a><br></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><b>From: </b>"Info Zeta Alliance" <info@zetalliance.org><br><b>To: </b>users@lists.zetalliance.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 21, 2019 2:42:02 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Users] Zimbra login page is indexed in search engines by default, is this good or bad?<br><br><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello All,</div><div><br></div><div>Zimbra login page is indexed in search engines by default, is this good or bad?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I see a lot of spammers taking advantage of this, trying to trick people. By referencing</div><div>to the domain and found email addresses online.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I see end users that just google Zimbra and try to log-on on the first hit found,</div><div>yes I know...</div><div><br></div><div>But what is the use for indexing the login page really? Do you think the default </div><div>behaviour (indexing) is good?</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, <br><br>Barry de Graaff<br>Zeta Alliance <br>Co-founder & Developer<br>zetalliance.org | github.com/Zimbra-Community<br><br>Signal: +31 617 220 227<br>Fingerprint: 97f4694a1d9aedad012533db725ddd156d36a2d0</div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>