[Dovecot] Lots of pop3-logins

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, June 26, 2009 8:48 AM +1000 Noel Butler 
<noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:

> What would be nice is, an anti brute force option, like xinetd, X-number
> of connections from Y i.p. in Z seconds (optional setting of course) or
> maybe a way to extend that to detect if the same i.p  is retrying
> constantly using different usernames on every new connection within X
> seconds, come to think of it, that way would be much cooler :)

Some good discussion about fighting dictionary attacks here:

<http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001206.html>