Configure Fail2ban to block SASL login failed attempts in Postfix
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Ref - https://bobcares.com/blog/fail2ban-postfix-sasl/
Add the following section in the jail.local file.
[sasl] enabled = true port = smtp filter = postfix-sasl logpath = /var/log/mail.log maxretry = 5
We need to configure Fail2Ban filter for postfix authentication failures in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/postfix-sasl.conf
# Fail2Ban filter for postfix authentication failures [INCLUDES] before = common.conf [Definition] _daemon = postfix/smtpd failregex = ^%(__prefix_line)swarning: [-._\w]+\[<HOST>\]: SASL (?:LOGIN|PLAIN|(?:CRAM|DIGEST)-MD5) authentication failed(: [ A-Za-z0-9+/]*={0,2})?\s*$