Connection throttling POP3.

[Benjamin Donnachie]

Andrew Morgan wrote:
> I believe there are also some solutions to monitor
> connections and automatically add IP addresses to the /etc/hosts.deny
> file, but I've never used them myself.

Fail2ban will do this (and more) see http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/

If your system uses PAM, it's also worth taking a look at pam_abl - see
http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl

Ben