[imp] Re: IMP Account Lockout Mechanism?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Apr 11 14:51:58 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:15 -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Back in 2003, someone asked if there was the ability to automatically 
> lockout an account to prevent brute force login attacks. The answer back 
> then was "no". Has anyone come up with something since then?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian!
> 
> The 2003 message thread is here:
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/mailing.www.horde-imp/browse_thread/thread/4fd8b4076486fe8b/62c9ff8252e25855?q=account+lockout&rnum=1#62c9ff8252e25855
> 
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It's not an issue for imp - it's an issue for your backend system - i.e.
your imap server if you are using imap account login (by far the most
prevalent use in imp)

Craig



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