Re: OT: IMAP under attack

Nic Bernstein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/8/22 08:34, Mikhail T. wrote:
> On 08.01.22 09:12, Nic Bernstein wrote:
>> You should be interested in the 'failedloginpause' setting, which 
>> defaults to 3 seconds. 
>
> I think, the request was for a /progressively increasing/ pause -- 
> doubling for each subsequent failure from the same IP and/or same 
> account...
>
> Is that currently possible?
>

Ah, yes; you're right.  No, that's not currently possible with Cyrus 
itself.  There used to be a setting for POP logins which did this, but I 
think that's gone away.  Might be possible with a proxy, like Perdition, 
but I've not tried it.
     -nic

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