[Dovecot] feature request / question?

[James Moser]

Occasionally we get a user who decided they need to pop their account 3 
to 4 times a second... usually I just disable their account and shout 
"no!", but now I have someone trying to do it repeatedly with an invalid 
username  so I don't know who to spank. =)   Before if this happened I 
would block the IP and wait for someone to complain...  dovecot doesn't 
make that very easy, or at least I don't see how.

May 20 20:12:29 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:30 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:31 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:32 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:32 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:32 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:32 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:32 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:33 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:33 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:33 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:33 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:33 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:34 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username
May 20 20:12:34 mail05 dovecot-auth: mech-plain(jhurley at thegrid.net): 
invalid username

No IP address, and we do not host thegrid.net.  There are no other 
messages or authetication errors being logged anywhere else either. It 
would be helpful to have dovecot display the IP address of failed 
authentications as well... it allready show's it for login's.


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James L Moser                 james at powweb.com
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