On Friday 10 May 2013 09:17:28 Steve Campbell wrote: > But I believe fail2ban uses iptables, and I don't run a local firewall > on the server. I'd prefer not to use a separate server to inject > firewall rules on the border firewall. I might be wrong about fail2ban, > though. > > I was hoping there was a file for pop and imap in dovecot similar to the > smtp "access" file in sendmail (which is what I use, BTW)
Yes, Fail2Ban uses iptables. I don't think there is another way (using Dovecot itself) to block a remote host since Fail2Ban is documented on Dovecot' wiki: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/Fail2Ban (it looks like one of the best way to achieve this). Gilles. -- ========================================= Gilles CHAUVIN Administrateur systèmes Pôle Systèmes Direction de l'informatique & des systèmes d'information Université de ROUEN Bat.16-IRESE-B-Place Émile Blondel 76821 MONT-SAINT-AIGNAN CÉDEX Accès: http://goo.gl/cYgtX Tél: 02.35.14.82.92 Fax: 02.35.14.64.64 Accueil DSI: 02.35.14.61.00 Mail fonc: syst...@univ-rouen.fr Mail pers: gilles.chau...@univ-rouen.fr =========================================