Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
Thanks to those who pointed me in that direction, I've now got Dovecot running on my test system. However, I've got some issues that I'm hoping someone here can help out with. I did a bunch of googling to find some of what I needed, but I'm not sure how to adjust things at this point (and some

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread mouss
Le 18/11/2012 16:34, David Guntner a écrit : Thanks to those who pointed me in that direction, I've now got Dovecot running on my test system. However, I've got some issues that I'm hoping someone here can help out with. I did a bunch of googling to find some of what I needed, but I'm not

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
(This accidentally went directly to mouss instead of back to the list - resending) mouss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Le 18/11/2012 16:34, David Guntner a écrit : I've discovered, somewhat to my dismay, that Dovecot will just sit there and cheerfully let you keep making attempts to login -

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread Glenn English
On Nov 18, 2012, at 2:00 PM, David Guntner wrote: That's not what I want - I need a way to have it CLOSE the connection after {x} number of bad attempts (three is usually a good number). In other words (for example), you put in a bad username/password three times, and it closes the

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Fail2ban works by setting up filtering rules through iptables, and will route traffic on a given port from a badly-behaving IP address to a DROP instruction in the firewall. it needs to care about which service is being abused. I'm pretty sure my

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Nov 18, 2012, at 2:00 PM, David Guntner wrote: Assuming I could get a meaningful log entry with each bad attempt, I could have fail2ban act - but that's still pretty useless since as far as I understand it; telling iptables to DROP a given IP

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [Lots of fail2ban stuff] Well, holy cow! That's what I get for starting a conversation. :-) I'm not the type to just ask a question or answer replies and just sit there waiting, I start mucking around and googling more and stuff. Just discovered that

Re: (SOLVED) Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [Lots of fail2ban stuff] Well, holy cow! That's what I get for starting a conversation. :-) I'm not the type to just ask a question or answer replies and just sit there waiting, I start mucking around