Hi Robert, On 07/18/2017 11:43 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > i guess not, but typical bots arent using ssl, check it > > however fail2ban sometimes is to slow I have configured dovecot with auth_failure_delay = 10 secs I hope that before the 10 sec are over, dovecot will have logged about the failed login attempt, and fail2ban will have blocked the ip by then. MJ