[Dovecot] limiting number of login attempts from same ip

Michael Starks dovecot at michaelstarks.com
Tue Jun 14 03:18:33 EEST 2011


On 06/13/2011 04:49 PM, Jürgen Obermann wrote:

> I admit that fail2ban can stop this attack, but we have solaris and not
> linux and therefore the actions fail3ban wants to start are not available.

You may be interested in OSSEC for this. I added the Dovecot support and 
OSSEC supports Solaris, so I imagine this would work fine (although I 
don't use Solaris so I can't say for sure.) If the logs turn out to be 
slightly different I can update the decoder to accommodate.


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