Re: [Dovecot] stopping dictionary attacks (pop3)

Hi Noel, Thank you for the hint. I've added what you suggested to the fail2ban action. I've had to resort to firewalling off the pop3 port to my ISP subnets and any subnets of ISP's I use when I am on the go. This will work for me since it's a personal server with only a few external users

[Dovecot] stopping dictionary attacks (pop3)

Hi Guys, I was really hoping a couple of years later this would be addressed... I'm running Dovecot 2.2.5 on FreeBSD. Is there anyway to limit the number of auth attempts allowed in a single session? The reason for this is because I have "fail2ban" setup to firewall out any IP addresses that