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Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:49:54 -0500
From:  "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:14382] Re: Dovecot/POP3 Flood
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <200811251749.mAPHnpvB014012 (at mark) www.uhostme.com>
In-Reply-To:  <F9F62441D6374D4FB809B4CB98F54A5A@OfficeKen>
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I have been using this with zero problems:
http://www.gregkuhnert.com/public:bq:dfix


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
> [mailto:kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:29 PM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:14381] Re: Dovecot/POP3 Flood
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "User Ernie" <ernie (at mark) info.eis.net.au>
> To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:02 PM
> Subject: [coba-e:14379] Re: Dovecot/POP3 Flood
> 
> 
> >I am still having problems with these brute force attacks, the problem
> >seems
> > to be that dovecot is spawing too many processes->PAM requests before
> the
> > intrusion detection progam has notices. Is there a way to hard code the
> > number of simultaneous running dovecot processes to give time for the
> > blocking scripts to respond. Something like 50 dovcot pop3-login
> processes
> > at once should be heaps.
> >
> > - Ernie.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:14:51PM +0200, Maurice de Laat wrote:
> >>
> >> > wget http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php
> >>
> >> Make that wget http://www.r-fx.ca/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz
> >> Sorry for the confusion.
> >> --
> >> Maurice de Laat
> >>
> 
> 
> Ernie
> 
> As far as I know, the standard BFD does not work with Dovecot.
> 
> 
> 
> ----
> Ken Marcus
> Ecommerce Web Hosting by
> Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
> http://www.precisionweb.net
> 
> 
>