[Dovecot] pop3 rate limit
Christian Rößner
cr at sys4.de
Mon Dec 30 18:28:33 EET 2013
Hi,
>>> policyd can rate limit dovecot POP3 users?
>
>> sure :)
>
>> i just think dovecot does it better
>
>> last resort would be ip6table/iptable
>
> We're talking Dovecot, not Postfix. Policyd AFAIK is ran as a policy
> from within Postfix. That would be over SMTP and not POP3.
>
> If there is some config within Dovecot to allow usage of policys
> written for Postfix, please point that out.
>
> Searching the policyd.org site for terms like 'POP3' or 'Dovecot'
> yield no results.
That’s what I thought ;-)
In fact I would have to write an external policy service that really counts user/time. But as Robert said, there seems not to be a bigger problem with lots of connections, so I do not try to find a solution here anymore :-)
Thanks everybody
-Christian Rößner
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