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Hi, I was just looking for some advice on avoiding getting DoS'd from brute force log in attempts. We came in this morning to find that one of our Solaris 9 dovecot severs had wedged overnight due to a brute force connection attempt to pop3 from Brasil. In the span of about 15 seconds we received 342 connection auth attempts from the same IP: Sep 3 00:10:51 xxxxx dovecot: [ID 583609