Hi Tony,

You're right, the action should be like you mentioned if you just want to 
prevent spam.

Andreas
Am Dienstag, 24. August 2010 00:20:46 schrieb Anthony Ercolano:
> Boris give a nice jail definition for spamdyke.
> 
> He references the following article:
> http://notes.benv.junerules.com/all/software/qmail-spamdyke-and-fail2ban/
> 
> On reading the article, Benv reports that he had a currently banned count
>  of 1987. Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of how fail2ban works.  But,
>  what I think this means is that 1987 separate iptable rules have been
>  added.  One for each offending ip address.  I also think as it's currently
>  set up, EVERY packet, regardless of type, protocol, or port, that comes
>  into your mailserver will be checked against this ever growing list of ip
>  address.  I would think that if your mail server is also being used as
>  your name, web, and/or ntp server then each one of those services will be
>  unnecessarily slowed down buy this check.
> 
> I'm wondering if the action to be used here would be iptables[name=SPAM
>  protocol=TCP port=25]
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Tony
> 
> >Message: 5
> >Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:25:33 +0200
> >From: Boris Hinzer <[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] Does one blacklisted address kill the
> >     delivery?
> >To: spamdyke users <[email protected]>
> >Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> >Here goes my /etc/fail2ban/jail.local :
> 
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