[Dovecot] dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (tried to use disabled plaintext auth): method=PLAIN

[John Espiro]

On 1/27/2011 7:56 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Are you able to get your mail via your pop client?
Yes.
> If so, the log messages are from other attempts (probably by crackers
> trying to guess passwords on your system) to log in. Is there a "rip="
> in the log messages giving the IP of the originator? If so, is it yours?
There is a "rip" and it's my IP address.  I've got fail2ban and
denyhosts running very tightly, and so far, no one has even attempted to
log in to my mail accounts (ssh is a whole other story :)