* Jos Chrispijn dove...@webrz.net:
Dear group,
How can I block login attempts to dovecot after trying 5 times in error?
If you can read German take a look at this:
http://sys4.de/de/blog/2012/12/28/botnets-mit-rsyslog-und-iptables-recent-modul-abwehren/
p@rick
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[*] sys4 AG
On 08/31/13 23:13, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
Dear group,
How can I block login attempts to dovecot after trying 5 times in error?
You need to use fail2ban:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/Fail2Ban
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Best regards,
Adrian Minta
On 2013-08-30 7:55 PM, Joseph Tam jtam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Smith writes:
We're already running fail2ban, but it doesn't seem that effective
against botnets, when they only do one attempt per IP.
Yeah, distributed BFDs are tough to block unless you can characterize
the clients well.
On 01 Sep 2013, at 09:00 , Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote:
On 2013-08-30 7:55 PM, Joseph Tam jtam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Smith writes:
We're already running fail2ban, but it doesn't seem that effective
against botnets, when they only do one attempt per IP.
Yeah,
On 9/1/2013 10:00 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2013-08-30 7:55 PM, Joseph Tam jtam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Smith writes:
We're already running fail2ban, but it doesn't seem that effective
against botnets, when they only do one attempt per IP.
Yeah, distributed BFDs are tough to block
On 31-08-2013 13:07, Kai Hendry wrote:
However I found /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/conf.d/ a little
scary, since I like to have my configs as minimalistic as possible,
e.g.
I suggest you forget all the options and concentrate on the ones you
intend to use.
Dovecot has defaults
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 02:37:04AM +0300, Andreas Kasenides wrote:
mail_location=maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u
first and see how it works before moving the INBOX separately from
other boxes
That won't work:
imap(hendry): Error: stat(/var/spool/mail/hendry/tmp) failed: Not a
directory
