Feature request - blacklistd interaction

[Lefteris Tsintjelis]

On 4/5/2019 21:02, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
> 
>> On 4 May 2019 20:55 Lefteris Tsintjelis via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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>> Would be really really REALLY nice to have dovecot interact directly
>> with blacklistd! Makes a huge difference on busy systems and beats log
>> parsing by far.
>>
>> Thank you
> 
> Dovecot supports JSON based weakforce protocol. If you can make adaptor for that, then you can make it interact directly.
> 
> See https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Policy
> 
> Aki

Make an adapter in order to work with another adapter (blacklistd) in 
order to trigger firewall rules would only make things more complex. 
Keeping things simple is best.