[Dovecot] pop3 rate limit

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* michael <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> On 2013-12-29 02:05, Christian Rößner wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >we have customers with Exchange servers that are polling for new mail
> >every minute with dozens of pop3 accounts. I am looking for a
> >mechanism to rate limit this per user. So what I am looking for is a
> >way to block users from polling, if a user asks for new mail more
> >than
> >every 5 minutes (for example).
> >
> >Is this possible? Can this be achieved within Dovecot or does it need
> >external scripting? (I thought about fail2ban, but also want IPv6
> >support)
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >-Christian Rößner
> 
> See:
> www.policyd.org
> 
> You'll need to use v2.1 to get IPV6 support.

policyd can rate limit dovecot POP3 users?

p at rick


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