Re: Attack on the James Server

David Matthews <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.james.user
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hi Gunter

>The best way I think would be if James could handle this internally. Until then, fail2ban is a good alternative.

I  think you are misunderstanding. Neither james or any other mail exchanger or imap server can take over the work fail2ban can do. Fail2ban can provide a dynamic firewall, by blocking ip addresses that misbehave on the fly. This blocking happens at network level rather than application level so is much more efficient and safer than james/exim4/postfix alone can achieve with even the finest configuration tweaks.

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David Matthews
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