[Dovecot] Delay on failed pw attempts

[Charles Marcus]

On 1/1/2008, Benjamin R. Haskell (dovecot at benizi.com) wrote:
> Any reason that '2 seconds' couldn't be configurable (with a default 
> of 2)?

What I'd like to see is something incremental, like:

n=2
Password fails - wait n secs, n=n+1
2nd failure: wait n secs, n=n+1
etc...

This way the delay gets longer and longer with every failure.

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Best regards,

Charles