[Dovecot] Any way to let dovecot block pop3 attempts?

[Gilles Chauvin]

On Friday 10 May 2013 09:17:28 Steve Campbell wrote:
> But I believe fail2ban uses iptables, and I don't run a local firewall
> on the server. I'd prefer not to use a separate server to inject
> firewall rules on the border firewall. I might be wrong about fail2ban,
> though.
> 
> I was hoping there was a file for pop and imap in dovecot similar to the
> smtp "access" file in sendmail (which is what I use, BTW)

Yes, Fail2Ban uses iptables. I don't think there is another way (using 
Dovecot itself) to block a remote host since Fail2Ban is documented on 
Dovecot' wiki: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/Fail2Ban (it looks like one of 
the best way to achieve this).


Gilles.
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