Re: OT: IMAP under attack
Nic Bernstein <[email protected]>
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On 1/8/22 07:03, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > So is it possible to tell Cyrus to throttle reponse? > I.e. fail fast at the first failed login, take 2 seconds for the > second, 5 for the third, etc... > Keeping in mind that fail2ban will block them anyway at the fifth > attempt, but this would slow down them further. Yes, it is possible. Take a look at imapd.conf(5) for details. You should be interested in the 'failedloginpause' setting, which defaults to 3 seconds. Cheers, -nic -- Nic Bernstein [email protected] https://www.nicbernstein.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-b-26577a178/ ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Info Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/T1d0fcd8364d69d1f-Md371b417fde223893d892791 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/subscription