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<h1>Fail2Ban</h1>
<p>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 <a href="https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/blob/master/config/fail2ban-jail.cf"><code>config/fail2ban-jail.cf</code></a>.</p>
<p>You can do the same with the values from <code>fail2ban.conf</code>, e.g <code>dbpurgeage</code>. In that case you need to edit <a href="https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/blob/master/config/fail2ban-fail2ban.cf"><code>config/fail2ban-fail2ban.cf</code></a>.</p>
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<p>The mail container must be launched with the <code>NET_ADMIN</code> capability in order to be able to install the iptable rules that actually ban IP addresses.</p>
<p>Thus either include <code>--cap-add=NET_ADMIN</code> in the docker run commandline or the equivalent <code>docker-compose.yml</code>:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="nt">cap_add</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="p p-Indicator">-</span> <span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">NET_ADMIN</span>
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<p>If you don't you will see errors the form of:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="go">iptables -w -X f2b-postfix -- stderr: &quot;getsockopt failed strangely: Operation not permitted\niptables v1.4.21: can&#39;t initialize iptabl</span>
<span class="go">es table `filter&#39;: Permission denied (you must be root)\nPerhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.\niptables v1.4.21: can&#39;</span>
<span class="go">t initialize iptables table `filter&#39;: Permission denied (you must be root)\nPerhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.\n&quot;</span>
<span class="go">2016-06-01 00:53:51,284 fail2ban.action [678]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports smtp,465,submission -</span>
<span class="go">j f2b-postfix</span>
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<p>You can also manage and list the banned IPs with the <a href="../../setup.sh/"><code>setup.sh</code></a> script.</p>
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