IP drop list

Benny Pedersen
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:44:48 -0000

On March 2, 2015 11:35:24 AM Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave McGuire writes:
>
> >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets
> >>
> >> then setup fail2ban to manage extrafields
> >
> >  Now that's a very interesting idea, thank you!  I will
investigate this.
>
> If you don't expect yor firewall to handle 45K+ IPs, I'm not how
you
> expect dovecot will handle a comma separated string with 45K+ entries
> any better.  If you want to turn your global backlist into a per-user
> whitelist, that would be perfectly doable though.

lets call it denynets so :)

avises is bad when users does not understand why its allownets and still
fokus on block bad ips then just keep list of good client ips where login
is not fail, if dovecot is hard to understand try windows 10 then :)