Any way to limit number of active IMAP/POP3 sessions from a single user / per user?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Mon Jul 3 09:24:50 EEST 2017



On 02.07.2017 10:53, Alexey Asemov (Alex/AT) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just wonder: is there any way in Dovecot to limit number of active
> IMAP/POP3 connections for a single user, not touching any other users?
> Basically, the situation is single user hammering servers by lots of
> POP3 connections from time to time, and limiting exactly one user
> could be good.

Easiest would be to use 2.2.29 or later and use policy server for it.
With older version, I'm not sure if this is doable sensibly.

Aki



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