[Dovecot] login processes from attacks staying for hours

[Charles Marcus]

On 7/23/2008, Kai Schaetzl (maillists at conactive.com) wrote:
> I had this mailing list searched for "brute-force" to see how others 
> handle this and what dovecot provides to stop these attacks.

The best answer is to use a tool made for this kind of job, like fail2ban.

But as to why the processes remain for so long, I don't know...

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Best regards,

Charles