Mail account brute force / harassment

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 13:24, Marc Roos via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>
wrote:

>
>
> Say for instance you have some one trying to constantly access an
> account
>
>
> Has any of you made something creative like this:
>
> * configure that account to allow to login with any password
> * link that account to something like /dev/zero that generates infinite
> amount of messages
>   (maybe send an archive of virusses?)
> * transferring TB's of data to this harassing client.
>
> I think it would be interesting to be able to do such a thing.
>
>
Instead of being evil, just use fail2ban to address this problem :-)

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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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