#Fail2ban
2 articles
Security
Tracing Dovecot IMAP/POP Failures on DirectAdmin and Keeping 90-Day Logs
A follow-up to Mail Forensics — trace IMAP/POP failures in /var/log/mail.log on DirectAdmin, distinguish stuck clients from attackers using cross-protocol ratios, and adjust logrotate to keep a full 90 days of logs instead of defaults that lose them within days
DA Migration Part 3 — DirectAdmin + CustomBuild on Debian 12
Installing DirectAdmin through setup.sh, then assembling a stack with multiple PHP versions, MariaDB, ModSecurity, and rspamd using CustomBuild on a staging VM behind NAT, including pitfalls I ran into myself.