[Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

[Dave McGuire]

On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote:
>>   Timo, if I may make a request...Unless 1.2 will be released soon,
>> would you please also look into the possibility of integrating the  
>> "back
>> off after failed auth attempts" feature into the 1.1 code base?  I  
>> need
>> that badly here, to the point that I was considering writing such a
>> patch myself.  Hoards of little prepubescent miscreants won't stop
>> hammering on my pop3 port and it's driving me bananas.
>
> In the meantime you can use fail2ban.

   Thank you for the suggestion, but no, that doesn't work for me.   
I'm not running a Linux box, I'm running Solaris...and I'm not  
interested in running a firewall on my mail server.

   I do appreciate the suggestion, though.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL