Newly installed mailserver mutiserver enviorement debian jessie, use ISPCONFIG Manual and perfect Server jessie whowtos Error Apr 25 13:18:02 smtp1 fail2ban[1842]: Starting authentication failure monitor: fail2banWARNING 'enabled' not defined in 'dovecot-pop... 'false' Apr 25 13:18:02 smtp1 fail2ban[1842]: WARNING 'logpath' not defined in 'dovecot-pop3imap'. Using default one: '/var/log/messages' Apr 25 13:18:02 smtp1 fail2ban[1842]: ERROR Error in action definition iptables-multiport[name=dovecot-pop3imap, port="pop3,pop3s,i...mail.log Apr 25 13:18:02 smtp1 fail2ban[1842]: ERROR Errors in jail 'dovecot-pop3imap'. Skipping... Apr 25 13:18:02 smtp1 fail2ban[1842]: failed! jail.local [dovecot-pop3imap] enabled = true filter = dovecot-pop3imap action = iptables-multiport[name=dovecot-pop3imap, port="pop3,pop3s,imap,imaps", protocol=tcp] logpath = /var/log/mail.log maxretry = 5 [postfix-sasl] enabled = true port = smtp filter = postfix-sasl logpath = /var/log/mail.log maxretry = 3 Double checked jail.local, cant find errors, need help Thanks Rainer
Restarted fail2ban some minutes bevor, to continue troubleshooting and it started successfull. Seems it is fixed, do not know why. So for now no more help is needed.