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I have also realised that one can use Fail2ban to complement/____ CSF. In my test I installed Fail2ban and disabled all the monitored services. Then I defined a Dovecot entry and setup a Dovecot Regex that worked out of the box. Result is that Fail2ban is setup to only guard against Dovecot (POP3/IM...

After failing to have csf regex block the dovecot bruteforcing I explored other options and managed to install and configure ossec which worked for me. It also has regex, and even includes a dovecot one, which was a bit easier to customise and have it work for me. To avoid duplications of functions ...

First to thank the CSF developers for giving us this wonderful product. I have read and googled all the dovecot regex examples, and other users samples, but cannot find one that would work for me. I have spent hours trying to self-help but unsuccessfully, due to my not being good in perl, or regex. ...