[Dovecot] Account lockout option?

[Charles Marcus]

On 3/19/2009, Ed W (lists at wildgooses.com) wrote:
> The current attacks against my server are very slow attacks from a
> distributed botnet and fail2ban is hardly touching them.  I see
> dozens of IPs trying at no more than one per minute and it would
> appear they swap between smtp and pop ports (I see the same from any
> given IP).
> 
> Some IPs seem much more common and fail2ban is occasionally snagging
> an IP which spews a bit faster, but sometimes each IP will try only
> once or twice a day.

With such slow/limited attacks, as long as you enforce strong passwords,
whats the problem?

:)