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.
========================================= Gilles CHAUVIN Administrateur systèmes Pôle Systèmes Direction de l'informatique & des systèmes d'information Université de ROUEN Bat.16-IRESE-B-Place Émile Blondel 76821 MONT-SAINT-AIGNAN CÉDEX Accès: http://goo.gl/cYgtX