[Dovecot] Throttling Logins

[Sean Kamath]

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On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c is a nice tool to try stress  
> testing
> logins. Use it something like: imaptest user=dummy password=something
> clients=100 - select=0

The issue is not to be able to let someone run even more attempts at  
logging in faster. . . :-)

> Some people want to limit number of connections coming to one user, so
> this kind of blacklisting feature could be implemented at the same  
> time.
> Maybe for v2.0 or something..

Yeah, I know, and that's fine.  What I'm hoping for is something like  
"if host X connects 600 times, start telling it to go away for a few  
hours". :-)

Sean
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