On 2019-11-03 05:24, Allen Coates wrote: > > > On 03/11/2019 02:42, Wietse Venema wrote: >> John Schmerold: >>> What is the best way to protect against dictionary attacks in Postfix? >> >> Reportedly, fail2ban (no first-hand experience, because I have no >> SASL clients). >> >> Wietse >> > > I run a home-brewed fail2ban look-alike; I find it almost as useful as > postscreen.
I've been thinking about setting up exactly such a thing myself. Trying to figure out how to make fail2ban talk to a Shorewall firewall on a different box is just too much of a pain for such a fundamentally simple task. It's like trying to set up a CNC mill when all you actually want to do is file 2mm off a strike plate. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958
