Re: [Dovecot] No tcp wrappers, other ideas to help stop brute force attacks?

Ken A wrote:

http://www.ossec.net/ fail2ban looks interesting too, but doesn't appear to allow whitelisting? That could be bad.. Ken Pacific.Net

The next release of BlockSSHd (http://blocksshd.sourceforge.net/) will support blocking Dovecot authentication failures using iptables. I am just re-writing the blocking engine at the moment.

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