1 Topic by ali.shahzad40

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Topic: Sorry but the jail 'dovecot' does not exist

Hi,
I am facing the issue while adding the testing IP address into the dovecot jail. Could you please help me out with how to figure it out?

really thankful to you.

[root@mail1 fail2ban]# fail2ban-client set dovecot banip 1.1.1.1
2021-05-18 11:24:32,984 fail2ban                [9615]: ERROR   NOK: ('dovecot',)
Sorry but the jail 'dovecot' does not exist


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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Sorry but the jail 'dovecot' does not exist

ali.shahzad40 wrote:

Sorry but the jail 'dovecot' does not exist

It's clear that your fail2ban doesn't have "dovecot" jail enabled, or you have this jail but forgot to restart fail2ban service to bring it up. Please double check.
btw, iRedMail uses /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/dovecot.local for dovecot jail.