Strategies for protecting IMAP (e.g. MFA)

infoomatic infoomatic at gmx.at
Sun Nov 14 10:33:21 UTC 2021


I will throw in a few interesting projects which have kept my small
servers safe:

*) firehol.org

*) crowdsec.net

*) www.fail2ban.org

Have a look at those interesting projects!


On 13.11.21 22:16, Tyler Montney wrote:
> With the world of ransomware as it is today (aka attacks seem more
> vicious and commonplace), anything I expose to WAN must have
> additional protection. I've seen a few posts to this list on it. The
> only thing that helped was that Dovecot supports OAuth. Through OAuth
> I figure I could implement MFA. However, I'd have to host my own
> identity server. From there, Thunderbird supports OAuth so that should
> work.
>
> Since this is getting increasingly complicated, I wanted to ask before
> going further. What do you all do? Any recommendations?


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