Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.12.2013 17:30, schrieb Benny Pedersen: > Duane Hill skrev den 2013-12-30 16:59: >> Searching the policyd.org site for terms like 'POP3' or 'Dovecot' >> yield no results. > > yes if its undokumented, then its unsupported so what you are talking about? > if dovecot anvil / dovecot pop3

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Benny Pedersen
Christian Rößner skrev den 2013-12-30 17:28: That’s what I thought ;-) In fact I would have to write an external policy service that really counts user/time. But as Robert said, there seems not to be a bigger problem with lots of connections, so I do not try to find a solution here anymore :-)

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Benny Pedersen
Duane Hill skrev den 2013-12-30 16:59: Searching the policyd.org site for terms like 'POP3' or 'Dovecot' yield no results. yes if its undokumented, then its unsupported, if dovecot anvil / dovecot pop3 cant do it then it could be added, if pop3 is a problem why not change to imap ?, wher

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Christian Rößner
Hi, >>> policyd can rate limit dovecot POP3 users? > >> sure :) > >> i just think dovecot does it better > >> last resort would be ip6table/iptable > > We're talking Dovecot, not Postfix. Policyd AFAIK is ran as a policy > from within Postfix. That would be over SMTP and not POP3. > > If t

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Duane Hill
Hello Benny, Monday, December 30, 2013, 9:57:13 AM, you wrote: > Patrick Ben Koetter skrev den 2013-12-30 08:36: >> policyd can rate limit dovecot POP3 users? > sure :) > i just think dovecot does it better > last resort would be ip6table/iptable We're talking Dovecot, not Postfix. Policyd

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread michael
On 2013-12-30 22:53, Benny Pedersen wrote: michael skrev den 2013-12-30 02:35: www.policyd.org You'll need to use v2.1 to get IPV6 support. incorrect, policyd v1 still supports ipv6 greylistning, but it cant be used as a ipv6 server from postfix is another problem same holds water with sqlgr

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Benny Pedersen
Patrick Ben Koetter skrev den 2013-12-30 08:36: policyd can rate limit dovecot POP3 users? sure :) i just think dovecot does it better last resort would be ip6table/iptable

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Benny Pedersen
michael skrev den 2013-12-30 02:35: www.policyd.org You'll need to use v2.1 to get IPV6 support. incorrect, policyd v1 still supports ipv6 greylistning, but it cant be used as a ipv6 server from postfix is another problem same holds water with sqlgrey

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-30 Thread Robert Schetterer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.12.2013 14:05, schrieb Christian Rößner: > Hi, > > we have customers with Exchange servers that are polling for new > mail every minute with dozens of pop3 accounts. I am looking for a > mechanism to rate limit this per user. So what I am lookin

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-29 Thread michael
>Is this possible? Can this be achieved within Dovecot or does it need >external scripting? (I thought about fail2ban, but also want IPv6 >support) > >Thanks in advance > >-Christian Rößner See: www.policyd.org You'll need to use v2.1 to get IPV6 support. policyd can rate limit dovecot POP3

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-29 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* michael : > On 2013-12-29 02:05, Christian Rößner wrote: > >Hi, > > > >we have customers with Exchange servers that are polling for new mail > >every minute with dozens of pop3 accounts. I am looking for a > >mechanism to rate limit this per user. So what I am looking for is a > >way to block use

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-29 Thread michael
On 2013-12-29 02:05, Christian Rößner wrote: Hi, we have customers with Exchange servers that are polling for new mail every minute with dozens of pop3 accounts. I am looking for a mechanism to rate limit this per user. So what I am looking for is a way to block users from polling, if a user ask

[Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

2013-12-29 Thread Christian Rößner
Hi, we have customers with Exchange servers that are polling for new mail every minute with dozens of pop3 accounts. I am looking for a mechanism to rate limit this per user. So what I am looking for is a way to block users from polling, if a user asks for new mail more than every 5 minutes (fo