Fail2Ban is installed automatically and bans IP addresses for 3 hours after 3 failed attempts in 10 minutes by default. If you want to change this, you can easily edit [`config/fail2ban-jail.cf`][github-file-f2bjail].
You can do the same with the values from `fail2ban.conf`, e.g `dbpurgeage`. In that case you need to edit [`config/fail2ban-fail2ban.cf`][github-file-f2bconfig].
!!! attention
The mail container must be launched with the `NET_ADMIN` capability in order to be able to install the iptable rules that actually ban IP addresses.
Thus either include `--cap-add=NET_ADMIN` in the docker run commandline or the equivalent `docker-compose.yml`: