> Am 11.04.2019 um 12:28 schrieb Odhiambo Washington via dovecot > <[email protected]>: > > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 13:24, Marc Roos via dovecot <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 :-)
fail2ban is a good solution. I don't see any benefits in granting access to pop/imap as well. On the other hand if you to this with smtp, your service is probably abused for sending spam which you could use to train your spam filters :-) Best regards Gerald
